What 옱 means
As of 2026, 옱 has no established everyday meaning alone.
It is assembled from the silent initial ㅇ, the vowel ㅗ, and final cluster ㄾ. Unicode decomposes it into conjoining Hangul jamo—letters used to build syllables—ᄋ ᅩ ᆴ.
Hangul was created in 1443 and its principles were explained in 1446 as a way to write Korean speech by arranging initial, vowel, and final sounds into syllable blocks. Earlier systems— Idu, Gugyeol, and Hyangchal—adapted Chinese characters to write Korean; Hangul used its own alphabet. It became Korea's official national writing system in 1894; that history belongs to Hangul as a whole, not to a special meaning of 옱.
How do I type 옱 with a Korean keyboard?
Use d-h-f-x on the standard South Korean two-set keyboard layout.
Type d-h-f-x for 옱 on South Korea's standard 2-beolsik layout as of 2026; the keys compose ㅇ ㅗ ㄹ ㅌ. Phone keyboards and other layouts may differ.
Technical and low-context; it suits a Hangul input test or language discussion, not a casual reaction.
Alone, it can look like a typo or an unexplained keyboard test.
Who writes 옱
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What it means when someone sends it to you
2 readingsA valid Hangul syllable block; the surrounding text tells you why it is there.
Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Combination ideas
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1Why does 옱 look different on different devices?
Fonts can shape Hangul blocks differently; those font differences do not change the encoded character.
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How to type or find 옱
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- olt · ㄾ · batchim · jongseong · dubeolsik · 2-beolsik · Korean keyboard · Hangul input
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
옱\C631Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.