What 봥 means
Its meaning comes from the Korean word or phrase around it. In Hangul, consonant and vowel letters join into square syllable blocks; 봥 is one such block. A block alone does not show which word or phrase it belongs to.
A 2025 report on a Jeju-dialect exhibition quotes 강 봥 왕 고릅서. Here, 봥 appears inside a regional phrase; its meaning depends on the full expression.
Which Korean letters make up 봥?
Three Hangul letter components form this syllable block.
A jamo is one of Hangul’s consonant or vowel letters. Unicode decomposes 봥 into the initial consonant ᄇ, vowel ᅪ, and final consonant ᆼ.
What it means when someone sends it to you
3 readingsWorth knowing
- Hangul was created in 1443; its explanatory work, Hunminjeongeum, appeared in 1446. It was designed to represent Korean speech more directly than Chinese-character writing.
- Before Hangul, Korean writing adapted Chinese characters through systems such as Idu, Hyangchal, and Gugyeol. Hangul later became the standard script for Korean.
Questions people ask
1Why does 봥 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 봥
봥\BD25Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.