What 였 means
It marks a noun’s past identity after a vowel.
With 가수 (“singer”), 가수였다 means “was a singer”; 가수였어요 is polite. After a consonant-final noun such as 학생 (“student”), the full form is 학생이었다.
Hangul was created in 1443 and promulgated in 1446 to make Korean easier to write than through Chinese-character conventions. Its letters combine into syllable blocks.
Neutral Korean grammar inside a sentence; unfinished on its own.
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Who writes 였
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Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does 였 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 였
- Search it as
- yeot · yeoss · 였다 · 였어요
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
였CSS
\C600How to type 였
On a Korean IME, enter ㅇ, then ㅕ, then ㅆ; they compose 였. Decomposed jamo can stay separate.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
였
HTML hex
였
CSS content
content: "\C600";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%EC%98%80
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
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UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.