What 종 means
Read the whole Korean word first. A jong bell reading fits 종을 치다, to ring a bell, while 종족 is about an ethnic group or species. A servant or slave sense is historical or figurative, so never aim it at a person from one block.
종 is one building block of Hangul, the Korean writing system. It stacks three Korean letters, the sounds j, o and ng, into one block: ᄌ ᅩ ᆼ. The same block can be stored composed or as jamo, with no change you can see.
Neutral as a block; the surrounding Korean word sets the tone.
Do not read a lone jong slave sense onto a person.
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How to type or find 종
- Also called
- jong
- Search it as
- bell · servant · slave · species · kind
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
종CSS
\C885Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
종
HTML hex
종
CSS content
content: "\C885";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%EC%A2%85
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.