What 횼 means
Its meaning comes from the Korean word containing it.
Hangul groups its letters, called jamo, into blocks that represent syllables. 횼 combines ㅎ as the starting consonant, ㅛ as the vowel, and ㅆ as the final consonant.
Why is 횼 written as one block?
The block groups Hangul letters into one syllable. Before Hangul, Korean writing also adapted Chinese characters through systems such as Idu, Gugyeol, and Hyangchal. Hangul was designed to make Korean writing easier to learn. It was first recorded under the name 훈민정음 in 1443; an explanatory book appeared in 1446.
Hangul became Korea's official national script in 1894, after official writing had largely relied on Chinese characters. Unicode preserves the same design: a block can be stored as one precomposed character or as a sequence of its starting consonant, vowel, and final consonant; line breaking keeps the syllable together.
How do I type 횼?
On Korean 2-set, press G, Y, then Shift+T.
With QWERTY key labels, G enters ㅎ, Y enters ㅛ, and Shift+T enters ㅆ. The Korean input method joins them into 횼.
Neutral in Korean writing; it is a syllable unit whose meaning depends on its word.
Don't confuse it with
2Questions people ask
1Why does 횼 show as a box?
A box can mean the current font lacks 횼. Another Hangul font may draw the same text character differently; the underlying character is still 횼.
How to type 횼
횼\D6BCCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.
