What 셈 means
It covers counting, settlement, and practical assessment. It comes from 세다 (“to count”): count items, settle money, check amounts, weigh profit, or judge circumstances. Its earliest attested ancestor is 혬 in the 1459 Worin seokbo, an early Buddhist biography collection.
-은/는 셈이다 means “that counts as…”; -는 셈 치다 means “treat it as if…”. The counting noun thus also marks equivalence and assumption in present Korean.
Neutral Korean vocabulary; the surrounding phrase supplies the tone.
A lone 셈 is not enough to choose one English translation.
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Who writes 셈
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What it means when someone sends it to you
4 readingsAn accurate count or calculation
Combination ideas
3Let’s treat it as nonexistent for now.
What do you plan to do?
Settle the bill or exchange.
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How to type or find 셈
- Also called
- sem
- Search it as
- 셈하다 · 셈이다 · 셈치다 · 셈이피다 · 셈이들다 · count · calculation · reckoning
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
셈CSS
\C148Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
셈
HTML hex
셈
CSS content
content: "\C148";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%EC%85%88
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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.