What 모 means
It spells a syllable; the surrounding word supplies its meaning.
Hangul, the Korean alphabet, combines consonant ㅁ and vowel ㅗ into 모.
Hangul began in 1443 and was published in 1446 to make Korean writing easier. The native “corner” sense traces to Middle Korean 뫃 in Worin seokbo, a Buddhist book, in 1459. In 김 모 씨, 모 is the Korean reading of 某, a Chinese-origin character meaning “a certain person”; it withholds the given name.
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Who writes 모
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What it means when someone sends it to you
3 readings모 begins 모퉁이: meet at the corner.
Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does 모 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 모
- Search it as
- 김 모 씨 · 모퉁이
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
모CSS
\BAA8Korean IME
Enter ㅁ, then ㅗ; the Korean IME combines them as 모.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
모
HTML hex
모
CSS content
content: "\BAA8";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%EB%AA%A8
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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.