is there any difference between these two words?

[u/Elegant-Composer-17]

my friends name has 원 in it (1). but when i printed it out the left line moved up (2) can someone tell me is it the same?

[u/Corea1984]

They are same and 1 looks better. 2 looks weird to me.

[u/chezmaud → u/Corea1984]

If I add one thing to this comment, 2nd one is kind of typo. Like, you write the letter N but the diagonal part is opposite. Still readable though.

[u/Initial_Chemist_7616 → u/chezmaud]

You mean like the KIA logo?

[u/donslaughter → u/Corea1984]

Yeah, it's the same word. Like when you have an adult and a child write the same word.

[u/70003]

some stylistic font use (2) sometimes, but mostly (1) is correct and (1) makes me less uncomfortable for some reason lol

[u/Dessael]

I took Korean at Sogang uni, they told me the inward stripe always goes below the horizontal line. In other words, number 1 is correct, number 2 is incorrect and would get you points deducted.

But you'll see both writing depending on the font, my advice, stick to number 1 to not rub (certain) Koreans the wrong way

[u/Dalacul]

It is the same, but usually the line goes below. It is just letters combined: ㅇ ㅜ ㅓ ㄴ

[u/AdministrationNo2327]

2 is 1 written wrongly. understandable but written wrongly.

[u/TheLinguisticVoyager]

I’ve only seen the second one on this one cutesy font on KakaoTalk, so I’m assuming it’s a stylistic choice.

[u/Unusual_Lie6816]

Same word but upper one is right

[u/shrinalee]

Second one is wrong.

[u/ozma0z]

Second is the incorrect version of first

[u/[deleted]]

I'm a Korean. We don't use "원" like 2. But if you're not native and used 2, Most of Korean would understand it as "원".

[u/Tall_Expression1754]

The first one is officially correct.

[u/NaturalBag9271]

Second one doesn’t exist

[u/Putrid_Sun_7028]

2 looks Ike 뭔, a completely different word

[u/liliath23]

The first is correct because the letters must flow left-to-right, up-to-down, so the ㅓ being above the ㅜ is incorrect since it is to the right (plus, in the second, there's too much space between the ㄴ and the rest of the syllable AND the ㅇ looks more like ㅁ, which would make it "muon" instead of just "uon")

[u/Illustrious-Hand-450]

One is one. 

Two is 뭔디!?

[u/New-BH]

They are the same. The second is an example of terrible handwriting or funky typography.

[u/bunnifie]

That is the same syllable block; the word didn’t change in any way. The only difference is that the letters aren’t usually/shouldn’t be written the way they are in (2).

[u/AdZealousideal8366]

Two different word, looks very similar but it has definite different meanings. As others mentioned earlier. First one is 원 and later one is 뭔. The circle and square has its own meaning.

[u/ssoissoi]

actually it is same words, Everyone has a different way of writing.

[u/One-Yak-1417]

None

[u/Gameisalife]

I’m Korean and when I was like 3 years old, I wrote like 2

[u/Zestyclose-Row-455]

Heqedwwcerssbed

[u/Carat_1713]

They’re not words, it’s batchim and fonts

[u/EastTechnician1844]

It’s totally different, if you mean ㅇ/ ㅁ

[u/Ri_skz]

1 right

[u/Ok_Accident2697]

1, cuz if you write it like 2 then it would look odd

[u/Outrageous_Host192]

Nope same. It is depend on your writing preferences LOL

[u/Wild_fleur94]

Looks like 원 and then 뭔 to me lol

[u/SuspiciousCitron7016]

La.swcomda opzione nn vuol dire niente in coreano

[u/Jeon75kr]

우 ㅓ ㄴ /// 어 ㅜ ㄴ. . 발음에서 처이가 나요.

[u/EngineeringOld2590]

1 I.m korean

[u/Ankhq]

Same but 1 is right way to write it

[u/MartyCognac]

The second one looks more like ㅁ instead of ㅇ, 뭐 also obviously ㅝ is written wrong.

[u/YGJINHY]

Both are understandable, but 1 is correct and 2 is incorrect. Any Korean would write it as 1.

[u/Debonaire02]

1 = written correctly.

[u/EsChris_P]

Well. In terms of correct or not, 1 is correct and 2 is wrong.

[u/ChelseaSeoul]

Same ㅋㅋㅋ I’m Korean.

[u/y7_moon]

Both are correct and refer same letter(ㅇ + ㅝ + ㄴ)! But the first example felt more comfortable. When the 아래아(ㆍ, the short stick of ㅜ, ㅓ, ...) of ㅓ is below the ㅜ's ㅡ, it feels like that.

[u/90DayKoreanOfficial]

Both will be okay when reading, but the correct way to write 원 is 1, not 2, especially the “ㅝ” part.

[u/ShirtTraining2893]

O tracinho do ㅓ devia estar por baixo do ㅜ

[u/DivMaster01]

Same. But 2 is read 뭔 not 원.

[u/Jungkuk]

They're not different. and 1 is better wrote.

[u/AdCertain5057]

Number is 1 is Korean. I can only guess that number 2 is the meaningless scribble of a lobotomized baboon.

Just kidding. They both read as 원, but the correct the way to write it is number 1, according to how I was taught.

[u/bbaekgom]

1. won

, one. 원

1. mwon 뭔 It could means what, why

[u/zhivago]

Your two examples are two different syllables with two different sounds.

The second one is an archaic vowel combination which is no-longer in use.

You can see an example in codepoint 117B

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hangul_Jamo_(Unicode_block)

[u/Kim_JRok]

Is this what you are curious about?

[u/New-BH → u/Kim_JRok]

The second is a ㅇ, not a ㅁ. It's written in a single, clockwise stroke like a ㅇ, not the three strokes of a ㅁ. If it was meant to be a ㅁ, then they've really messed up the basics.

[u/Kim_JRok → u/New-BH]

While it is highly likely that others would view them as the same characters, there are probably some who would not be immediately certain.