What 힠 means
It contributes a syllable sound; a full word supplies its meaning.
힠 is built from three Hangul letters, called jamo: leading ᄒ, vowel ᅵ, and trailing ᆿ. They form one syllable, romanized roughly as hik: an h sound, i, and a final k with no vowel after it. The jamo explain the syllable’s sound, not a word’s translation.
Hangul was devised at King Sejong’s court in late 1443 and introduced in 1446 through Hunminjeongeum, a guide to the alphabet. It gave Korean a writing system designed for its sounds, alongside the Chinese characters, called hanja, used in Korean writing. Hanja is a historical writing tradition, not a component of this block.
Is 힠 a Korean word?
Not by itself as a word with an established meaning. As of 2026, this isolated syllable has no stable standalone slang reading; treat it as one syllable within a larger Korean word or expression.
Tone: a neutral written syllable; its effect comes from the surrounding Korean word.
Who writes 힠
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does 힠 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 힠
- Search it as
- 힠 · hik · Korean hik · glz · jamo · Dubeolsik · NFC
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
힠\D7A0Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.