What 렴 means
Context decides 렴's meaning. As -렴, the ryeom ending gently permits or mildly orders and lowers the listener in speech level: 오렴 and 쉬렴 suit a senior speaking to a child or junior.
Hangul was completed in 1443, then explained in Hunminjeongeum in 1446 to make Korean easier to write and learn. 렴 is one stacked block built from jamo, in the tradition Hangul added alongside Hanja. As of 2026, no separate origin for this one block surfaced.
As -렴, it is gentle but speech-level-lowering: use it downward, not upward.
Do not aim -렴 at a boss or elder.
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Who writes 렴
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Combination ideas
2Gentle “come here” from a senior to a junior.
Gentle “get some rest” from a senior to a junior.
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- Also called
- ryeom · -렴
- Search it as
- -ryeom · 렴 · 오렴 · 쉬렴 · ryeom-ending
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
렴CSS
\B834how to type 렴
Switch to Korean input and enter ㄹ ㅕ ㅁ; the IME composes the block.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
렴
HTML hex
렴
CSS content
content: "\B834";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%EB%A0%B4
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On screen
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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.