What 근 means
The surrounding word decides what it means.
Hangul, the Korean alphabet created in 1443 and explained in 1446, stacks sounds into squares. 근 packs initial ㄱ, vowel ㅡ, and final ㄴ into one geun block your font draws.
So read it inside whole words: 근육 means muscle, while one use of 근 is the Korean weight unit geun. Copy it from the palette above when you need the exact block.
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Who writes 근
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What it means when someone sends it to you
2 readingsA syllable sound, not a word on its own.
Combination ideas
2Muscle; a common Korean word using 근.
Muscular strength; another word using 근.
Questions people ask
1Why does 근 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 근
- Also called
- geun · kun
- Search it as
- korean geun · 근육
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
근CSS
\ADFCKorean IME
Type ㄱ, then ㅡ, then ㄴ; they join into 근.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
근
HTML hex
근
CSS content
content: "\ADFC";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%EA%B7%BC
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.