What 흛 means
By itself, read it as a constructed or accidental block, not a message.
Unicode can store 흛 as one block or as its Hangul letter pieces, called jamo; compatible Korean text systems can display both alike despite different stored forms.
Hangul was designed to write Korean speech alongside Chinese characters. A 1443 entry in the Sejong Sillok, a royal chronicle, is an early record; the 1446 Hunminjeongeum, an introduction to the alphabet, explained its purpose and syllable pattern: starting consonant, vowel, optional ending consonant. As of 2026, South Korea generally calls it Hangeul; North Korea favors Choseongul.
Who writes 흛
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Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does 흛 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 흛
- Search it as
- 흛 meaning · type 흛 on Korean keyboard · Hangul block · ㅎㅡㄹㅂ
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
흛\D75BCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.