What 못 means
A separate 못 before a verb marks inability. Written together, 못하다 can mean “do poorly.”
Hangul, the writing system for Korean, was created in 1443; its principles were explained in 1446. Later Middle Korean, a later period in the language’s history, used 못하다 more broadly.
못 vs 안: 못 marks inability; 안 says the action is not happening without claiming it is impossible.
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Who writes 못
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What it means when someone sends it to you
3 readingsCan’t go; ability or circumstances block it.
Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does 못 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 못
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
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HTML
못CSS
\BABBHow to type 못
On a Korean Dubeolsik layout, an input method combines A, H, T into ㅁ, ㅗ, ㅅ, then 못.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
못
HTML hex
못
CSS content
content: "\BABB";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%EB%AA%BB
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.