Hangul syllable bbwaeng

A syllable, not a complete message.

Hangul builds syllable blocks from jamo, its written letters. In 뾍 these are the initial consonant ᄈ, vowel ᅫ, and final consonant ᆼ. A Korean word or name around it supplies the meaning.

Hangul was designed to write Korean speech. Its first record dates to 1443; the guide Hunminjeongeum was published in 1446. The script was also called Hunminjeongeum; Hangeul became widely used after 1928. Korean writing also has a Hanja tradition—Chinese characters used in Korean—but Hangul blocks are assembled from letters, not directly derived from those characters. Fonts may space the jamo differently without changing the character.