Hangul Syllable Bbwi

It supplies one Korean syllable, not a word by itself.

Its sound is romanized ppwi: ㅃ is a tense p-like onset, and ㅟ is a vowel pronounced roughly like “wi.” These are Hangul jamo, the letters that build syllable blocks; the Korean word around 쀠 supplies its meaning.

Hangul was completed in 1443, and the Hunminjeongeum, the book explaining the new script, was published in 1446. Hangul was designed to make writing Korean speech easier than relying on Chinese characters. It later appeared in Buddhist books and everyday writing, and became Korea's official national script in 1894. That history belongs to Hangul as a writing system; 쀠 still contributes one syllable to a Korean word.

What does 쀠 mean when someone sends it alone?

A lone 쀠 does not identify its intended word.

If someone sends only this syllable, you can read its sound but cannot infer the intended Korean word or message. Ask for the surrounding word or phrase.

How do I type 쀠?

Use a Korean keyboard that assembles Hangul syllables.

A Korean input method editor (IME) joins jamo as you type: enter ㅃ, then ㅟ. For direct Unicode entry, use the conjoining jamo ᄈ + ᅱ; NFC normalization, Unicode's standard way to recombine them, turns them into one precomposed syllable block.

Fonts vary how the jamo sit inside the square cell, so their spacing and proportions can change. The character remains 쀠.