What 휑 means
It means open, empty, hollow, or thoroughly knowing.
휑하다 covers an open passage, a bare room or street, a hollow feeling, sunken eyes, or being well-versed. The noun next to it picks the sense, so never read a lone 휑 as an emoji-style reaction.
The earliest evidence found is 휑ᄒᆞ다, glossed 空曠 (“open and empty”) in 광재물보 around 1800. As of 2026-09-08, no defensible regional, ritual, or political reading of the standalone glyph emerged.
How do I type 휑?
Switch to Korean input and type ㅎ ㅞ ㅇ.
Hangul was created in 1443 to write Korean more easily than with Chinese characters, and its explanatory book appeared in 1446. Its letters stack into one block, so 휑 is a sound unit, not a picture; on 2-set QWERTY that sequence is g n p d.
Unicode can also store the same syllable as 휑. If you see split jamo, your app is showing the decomposed form; it should shape back into one block.
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Don't confuse it with
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Questions people ask
1Why did 휑 turn into 휑?
It still is 휑 — normalization can split the block into jamo. The forms stay equivalent, and a shaping app should show one block.
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How to type or find 휑
- Also called
- 휑하다 · 휑한 · hweng
- Search it as
- 휑 · 횅 · 횡
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
휑\D711Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.