What 천 means
It spells the sound “cheon”; the word around it gives the meaning. Many different Hanja share this reading, including 泉 “spring” besides thousand, heaven, and river, so isolated 천 has no single translation. Read it as one sound block made of ㅊ ㅓ ㄴ.
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Who writes 천
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How to type or find 천
- Also called
- cheon · chŏn
- Search it as
- hangul · hanja · jamo · thousand
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
천CSS
\CC9CKorean IME
Switch to a Korean IME, enter ㅊ, ㅓ, ㄴ in order, and let it compose 천.
Windows
Select Korean Microsoft IME, switch from A to 가, then type the jamo.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
천
HTML hex
천
CSS content
content: "\CC9C";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%EC%B2%9C
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.


