What 총 means
The word around it decides the sense.
총 열일곱 means “seventeen in all”; 총기 means “firearms”; 총명 means “intelligence.” The syllable corresponds to 總 (“total”), 銃 (“gun”), or 聰 (“keen hearing, intelligence”), Hanja—Chinese characters used in Korean vocabulary. The whole word tells you which root applies.
Hangul was devised in 1443 and formally promulgated in 1446 to make Korean easier to write. Each block combines an opening consonant, a vowel, and sometimes a closing consonant.
Questions people ask
1Why does 총 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 총
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType CD1D, then Alt+X to get 총.
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 cong”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType cd1d, then Enter or Space.
HTML
총CSS
\CD1DHow to type 총
With Korean input active, enter ㅊ, then ㅗ, then ㅇ; the input method combines them as 총.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
총
HTML hex
총
CSS content
content: "\CD1D";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%EC%B4%9D
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.