What 쑥 means
It names the mugwort plant.
Korean accounts describe it as food and medicine, as fuel for lighting fires, and as an insect repellent; it also appears in Dano customs, a traditional midsummer observance. Korean written records mention ssuk in the 1200s and 1300s. In 2025, Korean cultural coverage described ssuk appearing in cooking beyond Korea.
Someone sent me 쑥—what does it mean?
By itself, 쑥 names the herb; the message supplies the reason.
Why does 쑥 look different in different fonts?
Fonts can draw the same Hangul syllable block differently.
Unicode can encode 쑥 as one syllable character or as the three Hangul letters (jamo) 쑥. A font arranges that sequence into a block, and its inner shapes can vary.
In Korean, it is an ordinary plant name; food, medicine, and seasonal customs give it cultural context.
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Who writes 쑥
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What it means when someone sends it to you
2 readingsMugwort as an ingredient.
Related characters
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Combination ideas
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How to type or find 쑥
- Also called
- ssuk · mugwort
- Search it as
- 쑥 · 쑥국 · 쑥떡
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
쑥\C465Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.