What 빱 means
It spells a syllable sound; the surrounding word supplies meaning.
It combines ㅃ, ㅏ, and final ㅂ (batchim). Hangul was devised in 1443 to write Korean; Hunminjeongeum, a guide to the alphabet, explained it in 1446.
Why does 김밥 show 빱 in a pronunciation guide?
It marks a spoken form, not a spelling change.
The spelling stays 김밥; [김ː빱] was accepted as a standard pronunciation in 2016.
Don't confuse it with
1Questions people ask
1Why does 빱 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.
How to type 빱
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType BE71, then Alt+X to get 빱.
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 bbab”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType be71, then Enter or Space.
HTML
빱CSS
\BE712-set keyboard
On a Korean 2-set keyboard, use Korean input and press Shift+Q (ㅃ), K (ㅏ), then Q (final ㅂ) to type 빱.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
빱
HTML hex
빱
CSS content
content: "\BE71";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%EB%B9%B1
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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.