What 곡 means
It usually means a song or musical piece.
Hanja are Chinese characters used in Korean: 曲 gives the music sense; 谷, 穀, 哭 mean valley, grain, and weeping.
Hangul, Korea’s alphabet, was created in 1443 to write Korean; an explanation of its design was published in 1446. ㄱ, ㅗ, ㄱ form 곡. The older form 곡〮 appears in a 1489 record.
Neutral Korean music vocabulary; context identifies its Hanja root.
What it means when someone sends it to you
2 readings노래 한 곡
One song; 곡 counts the musical piece.
곡면
A curved surface; here 曲 means curved.
Questions people ask
1Why does 곡 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 곡
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType ACE1, then Alt+X to get 곡.
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 gog”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType ace1, then Enter or Space.
HTML
곡CSS
\ACE1How do I type 곡 on a Korean keyboard?
Switch to Korean input; type ㄱ, ㅗ, ㄱ, and the IME combines them.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
곡
HTML hex
곡
CSS content
content: "\ACE1";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%EA%B3%A1
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.