What 왕 means
King, or a field leader.
As a noun, 왕 means a monarch or top figure. As a prefix, 왕- means unusually large or severe; as a suffix, -왕 marks a field leader.
Hangul was created in 1443; its purpose and principles were explained in 1446 to help people unfamiliar with Chinese characters read Korean. Its earliest documented literary use dates to 1447.
Part of the collection
Who writes 왕
Loading…
Don't confuse it with
1How to type or find 왕
- Also called
- wang
- Search it as
- 왕 · king · 王
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
왕CSS
\C655How to type 왕
On a Korean 2-set keyboard, enter ㅇ ㅗ ㅏ ㅇ; the input method forms 왕. Without syllable composition, the letters may stay separate.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
왕
HTML hex
왕
CSS content
content: "\C655";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%EC%99%95
1
On screen
1
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.



