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엢

hangul syllable ebs

Hangul Syllable Ebs

엢 is a Hangul syllable block built from three Korean letters, called jamo: ㅇ, ㅔ, and ㅄ. Alone, it gives you a syllable but not enough context to know the intended word. Unicode normalization can split the block back into its jamo.

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엢 · 엢 meaning · ebs · jamo · Korean 2-set keyboard · Korean syllable
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Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

What 엢 means

It is a Hangul syllable block; its intended word depends on context.

Hangul, the Korean writing system, was devised in 1443. The 1446 Hunminjeongeum, a guide to the new alphabet, explained how letters form syllable blocks and aimed to let Korean speakers write their language without relying on Chinese characters.

Earlier names for the script included jeongeum and eonmun, followed by gukmun and gukseo. The name Hangeul appears in records from the early 1910s and spread after the holiday celebrating the script was renamed in 1928. These are names for the writing system, not special meanings of 엢.

This is neutral Korean text; alone, the syllable does not identify the intended word.

If someone sends only 엢, ask what word it belongs to before assigning intent.

Questions people ask

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Why does 엢 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 엢

Windows (Word)
Alt+XType C5E2, then Alt+X to get 엢.
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 ebs”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType c5e2, then Enter or Space.
HTML
엢
CSS
\C5E2
Korean 2-set keyboard
To type 엢, select a Korean 2-set keyboard and press D, P, Q, T; the input method combines the jamo into the block.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
엢
HTML hex
엢
CSS content
content: "\C5E2";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%EC%97%A2
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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.

Families this belongs to

2

Chinese, Japanese & Korean121,370 symbols

Korean syllables11,623 symbols