Hangul Jongseong Pieup

ᆸ is the positional Hangul jamo for the consonant pieup.

Jongseong means the final jamo in a syllable; batchim is the Korean word for that closing consonant. It sits beneath the block’s initial and vowel. Pieup names the consonant: this glyph has the same identity as ㅂ, but it is written for the final slot.

Hangul’s final slot belongs to the script’s original design. Its development was completed in 1443; the explanatory manual Hunminjeongeum was published in 1446 to give Korean a learnable writing system because Chinese characters fit Korean poorly. The manual places final sounds below the initial and vowel, illustrates syllables 섭 and 굽 ending in ㅂ, and says eight final sounds suffice across contexts. It also discusses Chinese sound-and-rhyme theory and neighboring writing traditions while presenting Hangul as a system for Korean speech. Unicode separately encodes this final form and additional jamo used in historical Korean spelling.

How do I type ᆸ alone?

Use a character picker; Korean input usually builds whole syllable blocks.

A Korean input method normally combines an initial consonant, vowel, and optional final consonant into one block. To enter this isolated final jamo, use your system’s character picker.

Unicode allows a trailing jamo by itself, although it is not a whole syllable. Software can place designated leading and medial filler characters before it to give it a syllable-cell layout; the fillers reserve positions and add no sounds.

Why does ᆸ look different from ㅂ?

They are the same consonant written for different positions.

ᆸ is the conjoining trailing jamo, while ㅂ is the compatibility jamo for pieup: a code form without a leading or trailing slot. That is why the two may look different; they mark different writing positions, not different consonants.