Hangul syllable bbip

It records one Korean syllable; the surrounding word gives it meaning.

Hangul writes Korean speech by arranging consonant and vowel letters into square syllable blocks. 삪 combines initial consonant ᄈ, vowel ᅵ, and final consonant ᇁ. These component letters are called jamo; together they spell one syllable.

The script was created for Korean: Chinese characters had been adapted to represent Korean, but did not match its sounds closely. It was first called Hunminjeongeum (“Correct Sounds for the Instruction of the People”). A court record mentions the 28 letters in 1443; an explanatory guide, Hunminjeongeum Haeryebon, was completed in 1446. Later names included eonmun (“vernacular writing”) and gukmun (“national writing”). “Hangeul” appears in records in the early 1910s and spread widely after a language society used it for its journal in 1927 and an observance in 1928.

How do I type 삪?

Enter its initial consonant, vowel, and final consonant in order.

With a Korean keyboard layout, enter ㅃ, then ㅣ, then ㅍ; the Korean input method editor (IME) joins them into the block.

Why can 삪 have two Unicode forms?

Unicode can store the block or its equivalent jamo sequence.

The precomposed character 삪 and the decomposed sequence 삪 are canonically equivalent: both encode the same syllable. Text normalization can convert between them, which matters when software compares strings or counts raw characters.