What 송 means
Read the full Korean word or name. 송금 means “remittance”; 送 adds “send.” 송화 means “pine flowers or pollen”; 松 means “pine.” 송 is also the family name romanized Song.
Hangul was devised in 1443; the 1446 Hunminjeongeum text explained its purpose. Idu, Gugyeol, and Hyangchal were older methods for adapting Chinese characters to Korean. Hangul aimed to make Korean easier to learn and write; it later appeared in religious, practical, and everyday texts.
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Who writes 송
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Questions people ask
1Why does 송 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 송
- Also called
- Song
- Search it as
- 송 · 송금 · 송화 · Korean surname Song
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
송CSS
\C1A1Korean IME
Type ㅅ, ㅗ, then ㅇ in a Korean IME; it composes 송. Unicode can store these letters separately, though fonts may render them as one block.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
송
HTML hex
송
CSS content
content: "\C1A1";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%EC%86%A1
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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.