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줌

hangul syllable jum

Hangul syllable jum

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줌 means “a handful” in Korean; in class or meeting talk, it also names Zoom. The noun comes from 주먹 (“fist”), so a one-word message can point to either sense.

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What 줌 means

A handful as a noun; Zoom in class talk.

줌 shortens 주먹 (“fist”) for an amount a closed hand can hold. Its earliest cited written use is in Gugeupganibang eonhae, a Korean medical text from 1489.

Hangul was created in 1443 because Korean speech did not map directly onto Chinese writing; its explanatory book, Hunminjeongeum, appeared in 1446. A block joins a starting consonant, vowel, and optional final consonant.

Neutral Korean noun; surrounding words settle the sense.

To send 줌 alone, give enough context to distinguish the handful from Zoom.

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Who writes 줌

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What it means when someone sends it to you

3 readings

A handful of something.

Questions people ask

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Why does 줌 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.

How to type or find 줌

Search it as
줌 뜻 · 한 줌 · handful in Korean · Zoom in Korean
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Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
⎇Alt+XType C90C, then AltX to get 줌.
Windows
⊞Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win .).
macOS
⌃Control+⌘Command+␣SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “hangul syllable jum”.
Linux
⎈Ctrl+⇧Shift+UType c90c, then Enter or Space.
HTML
줌
CSS
\C90C
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
줌
HTML hex
줌
CSS content
content: "\C90C";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%EC%A4%8C
1
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.

Families this belongs to

2

Chinese, Japanese & Korean121,370 symbols

Korean syllables11,623 symbols