What 육 means
Read the whole Korean word; the syllable alone is ambiguous.
육 개월 means six months, 육회 is a raw beef dish, and 육지 means land or mainland. Hangul, the Korean alphabet, was created to represent Korean speech and make writing easier; it was completed in 1443 and promulgated in 1446. In the 15th century, Hangul appeared in translations, practical manuals, and Hanja primers—guides to Chinese characters used in Korean.
Questions people ask
1Does 육 always mean six?
No. Korean words with this syllable can come from different Chinese-character roots; read the full word to distinguish them.
How to type 육
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType C721, then Alt+X to get 육.
Windows
Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win + .).
macOS
Control+Command+SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “hangul syllable yug”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType c721, then Enter or Space.
HTML
육CSS
\C721Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
육
HTML hex
육
CSS content
content: "\C721";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%EC%9C%A1
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.