What 대 means
“Big” is only one possibility. Hanja—Chinese characters used in Korean—explain different roots: 大 for size, 代 for generations or eras, 對 for matchups or ratios, 臺 for counting vehicles. They are not its letter components.
Hangul was invented in 1443 to make Korean easier to write, officially introduced in 1446, and used in royal literature and Buddhist translations by 1447.
Ordinary Korean text, not an emoji reaction.
Do not automatically translate an isolated 대 as “big.”
Who writes 대
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What it means when someone sends it to you
3 readingsAsking for the large size.
Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does 대 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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Collections with 대
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How to type or find 대
- Search it as
- dae
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
대\B300Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.