What 훼 means
Treat 훼 as one syllable inside a word, not as a message on its own.
The National Institute of Korean Language lists 훼손하다 as “to damage or harm.” That meaning belongs to the complete word, so a lone 훼 cannot be translated reliably.
Why is 훼 a block?
It is built from Hangul letters and a compound vowel.
The Hangul system was created as Hunminjeongeum in 1443 and explained in a 1446 book to make Korean easier to write and learn. Its later use expanded through Buddhist, Confucian, practical, and institutional texts. The sources checked as of 2026 do not establish a separate earliest attestation for 훼 itself.
Its connected parts are ㅎ ㅞ; the ㅞ vowel belongs to Hangul's documented compound-medial system. Unicode can decompose and recompose the block, while fonts control its exact shape and placement.
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How to type or find 훼
- Search it as
- hwe · 훼 · hwe syllable · hwe hangul · 훼손하다
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
훼\D6FCCodes and encoding1 code points
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