What 싼 means
Press ShiftT, K, then S on Dubeolsik.
Switch the input method to Korean first. ShiftT selects ㅆ, K selects ㅏ, and S supplies final ㄴ; the IME assembles them into 싼 as you type. On a Korean phone keyboard, tap ㅆ, ㅏ, then ㄴ in order.
If a program shows the parts separately, it is displaying the canonical jamo sequence rather than changing the reading; Unicode can compose and decompose Hangul syllable blocks during normalization.
what does 싼 mean in Korean
It means “cheap” before a noun.
싼 is the present noun-modifying form of 싸다 in its price sense: 싼 가격 and 싼 값 describe something priced low. It is Korean grammar, not a universal reaction you can read from the glyph alone.
This block's history is older than computing. The related adjective 싸다 is recorded in 1447 as Middle Korean for “to be worth”; modern Korean also keeps a separate “deserving” use in phrases such as 맞아도 싸다. Hangul was created to make Korean writable for people who lacked an accessible writing system and documented in 1446 with rules for combining initial, medial, and final sounds. ㅆ belongs to the doubled ㅅ family; ㄴ is the final consonant.
Neutral in price descriptions; in a proverb, it can frame low price as a quality warning.
In 싼 게 비지떡, the price word carries a poor-quality implication.
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Who writes 싼
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What it means when someone sends it to you
2 readingsA low-priced or inexpensive item.
Don't confuse it with
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3Questions people ask
1is 싼 an emoji?
No. It is a Hangul text character, so its appearance comes from the active font and its meaning comes from Korean text.
How to type or find 싼
- Also called
- ssan
- Search it as
- cheap · inexpensive · ssada · 싼값 · 싼가격
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
싼\C2FCCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.



