What 본 means
Word position separates the two uses. 본인 (“oneself”) and 본질 (“essence”) use Sino-Korean 本; 본래 means “originally,” and 본격 means “in earnest.” After a verb, 가 본 적 means “have been”; 본 is 보다’s past form in a construction for trying or experiencing an action.
Hangul was created to write Korean speech. Its creation is recorded in 1443; Hunminjeongeum, the book that explains it, appeared in 1446. Chinese writing on oracle-bone inscriptions dates from the 14th–11th centuries BCE. A 2025 study proposes one graph as an early form of 本, though readings differ.
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Who writes 본
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Questions people ask
1Why does 본 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.
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How to type or find 본
- Also called
- bon
- Search it as
- 본인 · 본질 · 본래 · 본격
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
본\BCF8Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.