What 빈 means
It means “empty” or “vacant”; the next word adds the shade. The verb 비다 means “to be empty”; 빈 is the form used before a noun. 빈 집 is an empty house, 빈 시간 is free time, and 빈손 means empty-handed. The related verb can also describe having no money or an inner sense of emptiness.
Hangul is the Korean writing system, designed to represent Korean speech. Its 1446 guide, the Hunminjeongeum, explains how letters form one block per syllable.
Questions people ask
1Why does 빈 show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
How to type 빈
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType BE48, then Alt+X to get 빈.
Windows
Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win + .).
macOS
Control+Command+SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “hangul syllable bin”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType be48, then Enter or Space.
HTML
빈CSS
\BE48How to type 빈
With Korean input enabled, enter ㅂ, then ㅣ, then ㄴ; the input method combines them into 빈.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
빈
HTML hex
빈
CSS content
content: "\BE48";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%EB%B9%88
1
On screen
1
Code points
1
JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.