What 낭 means
It gives you the sound nang, not a translation. 낭 is built from three Hangul letters, called jamo: ㄴ for n, ㅏ for a, and final ㅇ for ng. The word around it decides the sense: 浪, meaning wave, appears in 낭만 and 낭비, while 朗, meaning bright or clear, appears in 낭독.
Hangul itself was created to write Korean sounds more accessibly than Chinese-character workarounds, with its creation record in 1443 and explanatory publication in 1446. As of 2026, the sources reviewed identify no separate historical sign tradition for isolated 낭; its relatives are its jamo parts and Hanja-rooted words.
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How to type or find 낭
- Also called
- nang
- Search it as
- 낭 · 낭만 · 낭독 · 낭비 · 낭떠러지
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
낭CSS
\B0AD2-set Korean IME
Type s, k, d for ㄴ, ㅏ, ㅇ; the IME composes them into 낭.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
낭
HTML hex
낭
CSS content
content: "\B0AD";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%EB%82%AD
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.