What 흉 means
It is a Korean syllable, not a complete message. The block combines the Hangul letters ㅎ, ㅠ, and ㅇ.
The first record of Hangul dates to 1443. A guide published in 1446 explains how letters for a syllable's beginning, middle vowel, and ending fit together. Hangul was designed to write Korean speech directly when formal writing largely used Classical Chinese, the region's shared literary language.
For its chest sense, Korean 흉부 is associated with Hanja 胸; 흉하다 (“ominous” or “ugly”) with 凶. Hanja are Chinese characters used in Korean writing. 흉터 means “scar”; 흉보다 means finding fault with someone.
Tone follows the word: 흉하다 can be ominous; 흉보다 is critical.
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Who writes 흉
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휴ᇰ Older spelling of 흉; a 1586 record gives it a scar-related sense.
Questions people ask
1Why does 흉 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 흉
- Also called
- hyung
- Search it as
- 흉 · 흉부 · 흉하다 · 흉보다 · 흉터
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
흉\D749Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.