What 맛 means
It means taste or flavor, and can also mean feel or enjoyment.
For food, 맛 names taste; in 살맛, it means joy of living.
The earliest written record is in Seokbo Sangjeol (1447), a Buddhist text; there, 맛 appears among the senses, in a passage about wanting good-tasting food. Middle Korean, an earlier stage of Korean, also used 맛 for food itself; modern 맛집 means a restaurant known for good food.
Alone, 맛 needs context to reveal its sense.
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How to type or find 맛
- Search it as
- mat · taste · 맛집
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
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HTML
맛CSS
\B9DBHow do I type 맛?
On the standard Korean keyboard, press A, K, T. It combines ㅁ, ㅏ, ㅅ into 맛; without composition, they stay separate.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
맛
HTML hex
맛
CSS content
content: "\B9DB";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%EB%A7%9B
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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.