What 상 means
The full Korean word picks the meaning. Hanja are Chinese characters used in some Korean words to distinguish roots that share a Hangul sound.
Hangul was made for Korean speech, with sound parts arranged into syllable blocks. Its first recorded description, Hunminjeongeum, dates to 1443; the explanatory book appeared in 1446. Those dates mark the script’s history, not this syllable’s first use.
상 joins ㅅ, ㅏ, and ㅇ. Unicode treats the block 상 and decomposed 상 as equivalent text.
The syllable is neutral; the word sets the meaning.
Don’t assume bare 상 means “award.”
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Who writes 상
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What it means when someone sends it to you
2 readings“I got a prize”: 賞.
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How to type or find 상
- Search it as
- sang · 상 meaning · 상 prize
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
상CSS
\C0C1How to type 상
With Korean Dubeolsik active, press t-k-d ; the input method forms 상.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
상
HTML hex
상
CSS content
content: "\C0C1";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%EC%83%81
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
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UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.