Hangul syllable bboe

It has no fixed word meaning alone. In Hangul, ㅃ is the consonant and ㅚ the vowel.

Hangul was devised in 1443; the 1446 book Hunminjeongeum explains its design as an easier way to write Korean than adapting Chinese characters. In Korea, it became an official script in 1894 and lost that status under Japanese rule in 1910. In the 16th century, ㅚ sounded like two parts, roughly “oy”; after the 17th century, it shifted toward one rounded vowel. Contemporary Korean pronunciation varies by region and generation between rounded “ö” and “we.”