What 무 means
The whole word decides. Native Korean 무 means radish. In Chinese-character words, 無 signals absence or “nothing,” while 武 carries the martial sense.
Radish pickling appears in mid-Goryeo records. Hangul was announced in 1443; Hunminjeongeum, a guide to the script, appeared in 1446. A 1518 record describes radish in kimchi soup.
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Who writes 무
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What it means when someone sends it to you
3 readingsRadish kimchi; 무 means the vegetable.
Questions people ask
1Why does 무 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 무
- Also called
- mu
- Search it as
- 무 · Korean radish · nothing Korean · martial meaning
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
무CSS
\BB34How to type 무
With Korean Dubeolsik input active, press A for ㅁ, then N for ㅜ; the input method combines them as 무.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
무
HTML hex
무
CSS content
content: "\BB34";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%EB%AC%B4
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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.