Hangul syllable bbeup

쁲 is one Korean syllable; the word around it supplies meaning. Hangul writes a syllable as one block: an initial consonant, a vowel, and sometimes a final consonant. The letters that make up 쁲 are ㅃ, ㅡ and ㅍ, in that order. Here, ㅃ starts the block, ㅡ is the vowel, and ㅍ closes it; the syllable’s meaning comes from the Korean word around it.

Hangul was created under King Sejong in 1443 and published in 1446. It offered a way to write Korean without first mastering Chinese characters; in later centuries, it carried popular Korean writing and national identity. These are dates in the history of Hangul, not an origin date for this individual syllable.