Hangul syllable Bbeuh

It spells a syllable; its meaning depends on the Korean word.

A Hangul syllable block groups jamo, letters that combine into syllables: ㅃ begins 쁳, ㅡ is its vowel, and ㅎ is its final consonant. That structure shows how the syllable is spelled; the full Korean word supplies the meaning.

Hangul was announced in 1443 and explained in Hunminjeongeum, a guide to the script published in 1446. It was designed to write Korean speech with sound-based letters, rather than relying only on Chinese characters then used for Korean. 쁳 follows the script’s regular syllable-building rules. Korean writing could combine Hangul blocks with hanja, Chinese-derived characters used in Korean. Japanese colonial rule restricted Hangul’s public use. After liberation in 1945, Hangul became central to national writing across the Korean peninsula. South Korea commonly uses the name Hangeul; North Korea favors Chosŏn'gŭl.