What 커 means
By itself, 커 is a syllable, not a complete word. 커피 means “coffee”; 커서 can be 크다 (“to grow or be big”) plus -어서, with the sentence setting its sense.
Hangul was created in 1443 and explained in the 1446 guide Hunminjeongeum. It offered another way to write Korean alongside Idu, Gugyeol, and Hyangchal, older methods that used Chinese characters for Korean speech and grammar.
Unicode can also store 커 as ᄏ ᅥ, its consonant and vowel jamo; it remains the same syllable.
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Who writes 커
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Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does 커 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 커
- Search it as
- 커 · 커피 · 커서 · ㅋ · ㅓ · 코
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
커CSS
\CEE4How to type 커
On a Korean 2-set keyboard, press ㅋ, then ㅓ. The input method joins them as 커; if they stay separate, enable Korean syllable composition.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
커
HTML hex
커
CSS content
content: "\CEE4";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%EC%BB%A4
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
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UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.