What 염 means
It has no fixed meaning outside a word.
Words containing 염 have different meanings: 염색하다 (“to dye”), 염려 (“concern”), 염두 (“mind”) and 염소 (“goat”). The full word determines the translation.
How is 염 represented?
As one block or as a sequence of Hangul letters.
The block joins ㅇ, ㅕ and ㅁ, the Hangul letters called jamo. Unicode normalization can represent the syllable as that jamo sequence instead, without changing its displayed text.
Hangul was created under King Sejong; its creation was first recorded in 1443. Originally called 훈민정음, it was designed for Korean speech; an explanatory book of that name appeared in 1446.
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Who writes 염
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Questions people ask
1Why does 염 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.
How to type or find 염
- Search it as
- 염 meaning · 염 뜻 · 염 in Korean · 염 Hangul jamo · 염 Unicode normalization
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
염\C5FCCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.


