What 집 means
No: home, household, and shop, by context.
집 is a native Korean word for a dwelling, and for the people in it. This block spells one syllable, jip, from Hangul letters — it pictures nothing. Say jip for your own place and daily home life.
Spellings reach back to 1447 with possessive 짓 and 1481 with possessive 짒, so the form evolved rather than appearing invented at once.
Plain and everyday for your own home; an honorific context calls for a different noun.
For a teacher's or elder's home, use 댁 rather than plain 집.
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What it means when someone sends it to you
4 readingsGoing home.
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How to type or find 집
- Also called
- jip · jib
- Search it as
- house · home · family · restaurant · baduk · territory · 맛집 · 고깃집
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
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\C9D1Codes and encoding1 code points
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content: "\C9D1";
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%EC%A7%91
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