What 맡 means
Alone it means nothing; its word decides everything. In 맡다, it covers taking responsibility, a role, luggage, or a place; in 맡기다, it helps mean assign or entrust. 냄새를 맡다 means to smell or pick up a clue.
맡다 is already found in Yongbi eocheonga, and the smell sense in Seokbo sangjeol, both from 1447. Hangul, the Korean alphabet that stacks letters into syllable blocks, was created in 1443 and promulgated in 1446. So 맡 is old vocabulary, not a new symbol meaning.
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Who writes 맡
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Don't confuse it with
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Questions people ask
1Why does 맡 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 맡
- Search it as
- mat · matda · matgi · 맡다 · 맡기다 · 맡아 · 맡겨 · 맞
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
맡CSS
\B9E1Korean IME
Type ㅁ, ㅏ, ㅌ in order; on the two-set layout use A-K-X and the IME builds 맡.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
맡
HTML hex
맡
CSS content
content: "\B9E1";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%EB%A7%A1
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On screen
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Code points
1
JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.