What 몫 means
It means an assigned share or part.
It can also mean duty, profit, a math quotient, or, in dialect, a strategic spot on a road.
Why does 몫 sound like 목?
At phrase end, ㄳ reduces to a single k.
So 몫 sounds like 목 (mok); its written ㅅ is not heard here.
Where does 몫 come from?
Its earliest recorded spelling is 목.
The 1447 Seokbo sangjeol, a Korean Buddhist text, records it in Middle Korean, an older stage of Korean.
Don't confuse it with
1Questions people ask
1Why does 몫 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 몫
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType BAAB, then Alt+X to get 몫.
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 mogs”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType baab, then Enter or Space.
HTML
몫CSS
\BAABKorean 2-set keyboard
How to type 몫: on the standard Korean 2-set layout, enter ahrt; the IME maps those keys to ㅁ, ㅗ, ㄱ, ㅅ.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
몫
HTML hex
몫
CSS content
content: "\BAAB";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%EB%AA%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.