What 금 means
Its meaning depends on the whole Korean word. 금 can mean gold or money, begin 금요일 (“Friday”) and 금지 (“prohibition”), or mean a crack in 금이 가다 (“to crack”). The complete word tells you which sense you are reading.
Hangul was created to make reading and writing easier in 1443. Hunminjeongeum, the book that introduced the script, was published in 1446. In Korean vocabulary, 금 corresponds to different Hanja (Chinese characters used in Korean), including 金 in gold-related words and 禁 in prohibition words. These are word-level connections, not visual origins of the Hangul block.
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Who writes 금
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What it means when someone sends it to you
3 readingsLet's meet Friday; 금 is the first syllable of 금요일.
Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does 금 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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How to type or find 금
- Also called
- geum · kŭm · kum
- Search it as
- 금 meaning · gold in Korean 금 · 금요일 · 금지 · 금이 가다
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
금\AE08Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.