What 픣 means
It marks one syllable; Korean context supplies its word-level role. Hangul groups consonant and vowel letters, called jamo, into blocks. Here, ㅍ begins the block, ㅢ is its vowel, and ㄳ closes it.
Hangul was designed so ordinary people could write Korean. Its invention is dated to late December 1443; an explanatory guide was completed in September 1446. Unicode can also represent this syllable with separate jamo. Fonts vary their shapes, sizes, and spacing.
Questions people ask
1Why does 픣 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 픣
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType D523, then Alt+X to get 픣.
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 pyigs”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType d523, then Enter or Space.
HTML
픣CSS
\D523Korean input method
Enter ㅍ + ㅢ + ㄳ as one syllable in Korean keyboard software that supports this sequence.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
픣
HTML hex
픣
CSS content
content: "\D523";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%ED%94%A3
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.