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몸

hangul syllable mom

Hangul syllable Mom

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몸 means “body” in Korean and can also refer to someone’s health or an object’s main part. 계림유사, a Chinese glossary of Korean words, records an earlier transcription in 1103; 용비어천가, a Korean royal song collection praising the Joseon dynasty’s founders, preserves the spelling in Hangul, the Korean alphabet, in 1447.

Text symbol

What 몸 means

It means “body,” including a person’s physical condition.

For an object, it can mean the main structural part. The surrounding Korean phrase shows which sense is intended.

If someone sends only 몸, it means “body”; the surrounding words supply the specific sense. The noun itself is neutral.

Part of the collection

Who writes 몸

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What it means when someone sends it to you

3 readings

Someone’s body hurts or they feel unwell; 몸 refers to bodily health here.

Combination ideas

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The phrase pairs body and mind as distinct parts of a person.

Questions people ask

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Why does 몸 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 or find 몸

Also called
mom · mwom
Search it as
몸 · body in Korean · Korean word for body · Korean body · Dubeolsik · Korean 2-set keyboard
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
⎇Alt+XType BAB8, then AltX to get 몸.
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 mom”.
Linux
⎈Ctrl+⇧Shift+UType bab8, then Enter or Space.
HTML
몸
CSS
\BAB8
How do I type 몸?
Choose the Korean 2-set (Dubeolsik) keyboard layout, then enter ㅁ, ㅗ, ㅁ in order; the input method combines them into 몸.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
몸
HTML hex
몸
CSS content
content: "\BAB8";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%EB%AA%B8
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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.

Families this belongs to

2

Chinese, Japanese & Korean121,370 symbols

Korean syllables11,623 symbols