What 선 means
The surrounding word decides which meaning applies.
The same spelling occurs in separate Korean words: 선(善) means virtue; others describe a meeting arranged for marriage or a first public presentation. 善 is the Chinese character used to write the Korean virtue word.
Hangul syllables combine letters called jamo: 선 uses ㅅ ㅓ ㄴ. Unicode stores it either as one syllable block or as joining jamo letters; normalization can switch forms without changing the syllable. Hangul was created in 1443 to make Korean easier to learn; the 1446 book Hunminjeongeum explained its design.
Who writes 선
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Questions people ask
1Why does 선 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 선
- Also called
- seon
- Search it as
- sun · sŏn · 선 meaning · Korean keyboard
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
선\C120Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.