What 훬 means
It writes a Korean syllable; alone, it has no fixed word meaning.
Hangul arranges its letters, called jamo, around a vowel. In 훬, ㅎ is the starting consonant, ㅝ the vowel, and ㄽ the final cluster (ㄹ ㅅ). The block writes a syllable; its surrounding word supplies the meaning.
The alphabet was devised under King Sejong and announced in 1443; an explanatory book appeared in 1446. Hangul gave people a way to write Korean with alphabetic letters arranged into syllable blocks, rather than relying on the Chinese characters used for Classical Chinese. Hangeul became widely used as the script’s name in 1928.
Why does 훬 appear as separate jamo?
It may be stored as a sequence of separate letters.
Unicode can store the syllable as one block, 훬, or as the equivalent sequence of Hangul letters 훬. Text normalization can keep those letters separate (NFD) or combine them into a block (NFC). A font or app that does not arrange the sequence as a Hangul block can show its letters separately.
Who writes 훬
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Don't confuse it with
2훬 The same syllable written as individual Hangul letters; they can appear separately instead of as one square block.
ㅎㅝㄽ These separately encoded Hangul compatibility letters show the parts individually, not as one syllable block.
Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does 훬 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 훬
- Search it as
- 훬 · hweols · hweol · Hangul jamo · Korean syllable block · Hangul decomposition
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
훬\D6ECCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.