What 석 means
Its meaning comes from the surrounding word, not the block alone.
Pronounced seok, 석 can represent several Hanja readings, including 石 “stone,” or an older native counting form meaning “three” before certain counters. Hangul was created for writing Korean; 석 is attested in Seokbo sangjeol in 1447, after the script's creation in 1443 and Hunminjeongeum's publication in 1446. Its ㅅㅓㄱ parts connect it to jamo, while its Hanja readings connect it to Chinese-character vocabulary.
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Who writes 석
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What it means when someone sends it to you
2 readingsTranslate the full word; 석's Hanja reading is word-specific.
Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does 석 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.
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How to type or find 석
- Also called
- seok · seog
- Search it as
- 석 · hanja
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
석\C11DCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.