Hangul syllable Mij

A lone 밎 does not identify an established Korean word.

Hangul groups an initial consonant, a vowel and sometimes a final consonant into one written block. The jamo (Hangul letters) in 밎 are ㅁ, ㅣ and ㅈ; the syllables around it tell you the complete word.

Hangul was devised for writing Korean speech; the system was documented in 1443 and promulgated in 1446. A 2005 Middle Korean study compared 밎- and 및- as competing reconstructions of an older form, but preferred 밀-. A reconstruction is a scholar’s proposed form for an older word when its exact historical shape is uncertain.

How do I type 밎?

On Korean Dubeolsik, enter ㅁ, ㅣ, ㅈ with A-L-W.

Switch to Korean input first; the input method editor groups those keystrokes into 밎. In English mode, the same keys type Latin letters.

Unicode also represents the same syllable in a decomposed form, ᄆ + ᅵ + ᆽ, listing its initial, vowel and final parts separately. NFC normalization is Unicode’s standard way to join them back into one Hangul block.

What does it mean if someone sends 밎?

A lone 밎 gives no reliable slang or reaction reading.

A Korean reader can sound out the syllable but still needs its neighboring syllables to know the word. If a message contains only 밎, ask what context it belongs to.