Hangul Letter Ssangpieup

ㅃ marks the tense member of Korean’s ㅂ consonant series.

In this series, ㅂ is plain, ㅍ is aspirated, and ㅃ is tense. The doubled shape marks a sound contrast; it does not mean two consonants are spoken. In ordinary spelling, ㅃ begins a syllable with a vowel. Alone, it is a letter, not a complete word.

A record announcing Hangul’s creation dates to 1443. The 1446 Hunminjeongeum, a guide explaining the script’s design and use, describes how it represents Korean sounds. Hangul’s six doubled consonants, including ㅃ, repeat a base letter. A 2003 historical study describes older word-initial p-clusters (two consonants together), later strengthening into tense sounds, and dialects changing at different times.

How do I type ㅃ?

Use Korean Dubeolsik input and press Shift+Q. On this standard keyboard layout, Q types ㅂ and Shift+Q types ㅃ.

A Korean input method editor (IME) combines typed consonants and vowels into syllable blocks. Switch to Korean input, type ㅃ, then a vowel to form a syllable.

The standalone ㅃ is a spacing compatibility jamo, while ᄈ is its conjoining initial form for syllable composition. Unicode normalization can change which form is stored; the displayed characters may therefore differ even when they represent the corresponding initial.