What 물 means
It means “water.”
It keeps that sense in compounds: 물통 means “water container.”
The word predates Hangul
A 1103 Chinese-language glossary, the Jilin leishi, records it as 沒; southern place names used 勿 for water.
Hangul was designed for easier Korean writing. The first Hangul form, 믈, is recorded in 1446; ㅡ later shifted to ㅜ. In Three Kingdoms-era Goguryeo place names, 買 represented a regional water word.
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Who writes 물
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Related characters
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CJK Unified Ideograph-52Ff
Old Korean sound-sign for a water word in southern place names.
CJK Unified Ideograph-8Cb7
Goguryeo sound-sign for a separate regional water word.
CJK Unified Ideograph-6C92
Historical transcription of the Korean water word.
Hangul Syllable Meul
Earlier Hangul spelling before the vowel shift.
Combination ideas
1A polite request for water.
Questions people ask
1Is 물 an emoji?
No. It is Korean text; its appearance depends on the font.
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How to type or find 물
- Search it as
- mul · water in Korean · ㅁㅜㄹ
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
물CSS
\BB3CHow to type 물
With Korean input active, type ㅁ, ㅜ, then ㄹ; the input method joins them into 물.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
물
HTML hex
물
CSS content
content: "\BB3C";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%EB%AC%BC
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
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UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.