What 맣 means
It meant “rainy season” in Middle Korean, an older stage of Korean.
A 1459 Korean text, 월인석보, uses a form of 맣, written 마히, in a line contrasting rainy season with drought.
A 1576 Korean reference book, 신증유합, records 댱마: the period's Korean reading 댱 of the Chinese character 長 (“long”) joined with 맣. The compound developed into 장마, the modern Korean word for the rainy season. 맣 also survives in 마파람, a word for a south wind.
Historical Korean; useful mainly when tracing words such as 장마.
Don't use 맣 as a casual spelling of 장마.
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Who writes 맣
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Don't confuse it with
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Questions people ask
1Why does 맣 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 맣
- Search it as
- 맣 · mah · 댱마 · 장마 · 마파람
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
맣\B9E3Codes and encoding1 code points
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