What 통 means
Its meaning depends on the word around it.
쌀통 is a rice container; 통 모르겠다 means “I have no idea at all”; 통째로 means “whole”; 전화 한 통 counts one call. 통 also names a local administrative unit.
Hangul was first called 훈민정음 and designed for Korean speech. Its first written record is dated 1443; a book explaining the script followed in 1446. These are script dates.
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Who writes 통
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does 통 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 통
- Also called
- tong
- Search it as
- meaning of 통 in Korean · 통 뜻
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
통CSS
\D1B5How to type 통
With Korean keyboard input active, enter initial consonant ㅌ, vowel ㅗ, then final consonant ㅇ; the keyboard combines them into 통.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
통
HTML hex
통
CSS content
content: "\D1B5";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%ED%86%B5
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.