What 큼 means
A Korean noun form meaning “bigness” or “being big.”
큼 is the noun form of 크다 (“to be big”), made with the ending -ㅁ, which turns the stem into a noun. In 만큼, it belongs to a longer expression about amount or degree; 큼큼 imitates throat-clearing.
On the standard two-set Korean QWERTY layout, an input method builds it with z, m, and a. Hangul’s design dates to 1443 and the script was published in 1446 to represent Korean speech and make writing it easier than using Chinese characters.
How is 큼 written as a syllable block?
A Korean input method joins its letters into one syllable block.
The block has ㅋ as its initial consonant, ㅡ as its vowel, and ㅁ as its final consonant. Unicode can store 큼 as one precomposed syllable or as decomposed Hangul jamo; compatible text rendering displays either form as the same syllable.
A neutral Korean word form; its tone comes from the full sentence.
In 만큼, read the whole expression for an amount or degree; 큼 is not a separate word there.
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What it means when someone sends it to you
3 readingsA grammatical noun form meaning bigness or being big.
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Questions people ask
1Why does 큼 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 큼
- Also called
- keum
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큼\D07CCodes and encoding1 code points
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