What 닫 means
Treat 닫 as a verb stem, not as a standalone message.
The National Institute's dictionary uses 닫다 for closing doors, lids, drawers, or windows; finishing business; shutting down a company; and closing your mouth. 닫히다 describes something becoming closed, while 열다 is its listed antonym.
The block's job is orthographic: Hangul uses it for one syllable inside a larger form. The dictionary lists 닫아, 닫으니, and 닫는 as forms of 닫다, so endings supply the grammatical reading.
Worth knowing
- The related passive appears as Middle Korean 다티다 in the Worin seokbo (1459), an older form in this verb family.
Questions people ask
1Why does 닫 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 닫
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType B2EB, then Alt+X to get 닫.
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 dad”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType b2eb, then Enter or Space.
HTML
닫CSS
\B2EBhow to type 닫
Press E, K, E on the standard two-set layout: ㄷ + ㅏ + final ㄷ.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
닫
HTML hex
닫
CSS content
content: "\B2EB";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%EB%8B%AB
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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.