What 킴 means
It writes a foreign name spelled Kim, not the Korean surname 김.
Hangul was created in 1443 to write Korean speech; its design principles were published in 1446. Each syllable is arranged as a block from an initial consonant, a vowel, and sometimes a final consonant; 킴 uses all three.
The Korean surname 김 is commonly romanized as Kim; Korean references write 킴 for foreign personal names spelled Kim.
Neutral when transcribing a foreign name.
For the Korean surname, use 김; 킴 can suggest a foreign-name transcription.
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Who writes 킴
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Don't confuse it with
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Questions people ask
1Why does 킴 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 킴
- Search it as
- Kim in Korean · Korean spelling Kim · Korean surname Kim · foreign name Kim in Hangul
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
킴\D0B4Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.