What 팔 means
The Korean words around it decide the sense.
팔고 and 팔아 are forms of 팔다 (“to sell”); 팔 is the verb stem. 여덟 is the native Korean word for eight; 팔월 means August.
An older Middle Korean spelling of 팔 meaning “arm,” ᄇᆞᆶ, appears in 훈민정음 해례, a guide to Hangul published in 1446. Hangul was devised in 1443 and promulgated in 1446 to help write Korean without Chinese characters.
Neutral Korean writing; by itself, 팔 can mean “arm” or “eight.”
What it means when someone sends it to you
3 readings팔이 아파
My arm hurts; 팔 names the body part.
팔 명 왔어
Eight people came; 팔 is the number.
팔고 싶어
I want to sell; 팔 is the stem of 팔다.
Combination ideas
1August; 팔 represents eight in the Korean month name.
Questions people ask
1Why does 팔 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.
How to type 팔
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType D314, then Alt+X to get 팔.
Windows
Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win + .).
macOS
Control+Command+SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “hangul syllable pal”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType d314, then Enter or Space.
HTML
팔CSS
\D314Dubeolsik Korean keyboard
With Korean input enabled, press v, k, f; they enter ㅍ, ㅏ, ㄹ and compose 팔.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
팔
HTML hex
팔
CSS content
content: "\D314";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%ED%8C%94
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.