What 잫 means
It is an old Korean spelling of 자, meaning a ruler or length measure.
The word is first recorded as 尺 in Jilin leishi, a Chinese-character dictionary, in 1103; the Hangul spelling 잫 is attested in the 1447 Korean poem 용비어천가. Hangul was designed to write Korean speech with its own letters. Its syllable blocks combine an opening consonant, a vowel and sometimes a final consonant: in 잫, these are ㅈ, ㅏ and ㅎ. The final ㅎ belongs to the older spelling; modern Korean writes 자.
Who writes 잫
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does 잫 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 잫
- Also called
- cah
- Search it as
- 잫 · 자 · 尺 · ruler · traditional length measure · Middle Korean · old Hangul spelling
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
잫CSS
\C7ABKorean 2-set input
To type 잫 on a Korean 2-set keyboard, press w, k, then g; the input method combines ㅈ, ㅏ and ㅎ into one block.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
잫
HTML hex
잫
CSS content
content: "\C7AB";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%EC%9E%AB
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On screen
1
Code points
1
JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.