What 멫 means
It means 몇: “how many?” or “several.” Use 몇 in neutral Korean; 멫 carries a conversational or regional register.
Hangul, the Korean alphabet, dates to 1443 and was explained in a 1446 book. Examples of 멫 appear in a 1931 magazine, a 1940 poem, and a 1979 Gyeongsang oral recording.
Conversational or regional; not neutral standard spelling.
In formal Korean, use 몇; 멫 may look like a typo.
Don't confuse it with
1Combination ideas
1Regional wording for “how many times?” or “several times.”
Questions people ask
1Why does 멫 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.
How to type 멫
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType BA6B, then Alt+X to get 멫.
Windows
Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win + .).
macOS
Control+Command+SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “hangul syllable mec”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType ba6b, then Enter or Space.
HTML
멫CSS
\BA6BKorean IME
To type 멫 with a Korean IME, enter Hangul letters ㅁ, ㅔ, and ㅊ in order.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
멫
HTML hex
멫
CSS content
content: "\BA6B";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%EB%A9%AB
1
On screen
1
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.