What 멨 means
Its meaning comes from the Korean word it completes. In 멨다, the syllable appears in the contracted past form of 메다, “to carry or wear something on the shoulder.” The same verb also appears in phrases about a throat catching or taking responsibility, so the whole phrase decides which sense is meant.
Hangul was completed in 1443 under King Sejong and formally promulgated in 1446. Its letters gave Korean a sound-based alphabet alongside the Chinese characters used in formal writing. Those are dates in Hangul’s history, not dates for this individual syllable.
It is ordinary Korean spelling; any tone comes from the words and sentence around it.
Read the whole phrase: 멨 by itself does not tell you which sense of 메다 is meant.
What it means when someone sends it to you
3 readingsDon't confuse it with
2Questions people ask
1why do I see ㅁㅔㅆ instead of 멨?
Your keyboard may show the three jamo before joining them. If ㅁㅔㅆ remains in saved text, those are three standalone letters, not the single block 멨. Unicode also has a decomposed form with initial, vowel and final jamo that can recombine as 멨.
How to type 멨
멨\BA68Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.