Hangul syllable benj

As of 2026, 벥 has no established standalone meaning. It is a Hangul syllable block built from initial ㅂ, vowel ㅔ, and final cluster ㄵ. Said alone, ㄵ is pronounced as ㄴ, so the syllable sounds roughly like “pen” with a softer p. The Unicode name “benj” describes the written parts; it is not the spoken Korean reading.

King Sejong created Hangul in 1443; its explanatory book, Hunminjeongeum Haeryebon, was published in 1446. Before Hangul, people wrote Korean with Chinese characters; Idu was an earlier system that adapted those characters to write Korean words and grammar. This history belongs to Hangul as a script, not to 벥 in particular.

How do I type 벥?

Use a Korean IME to enter its three parts in order. Type initial ㅂ, then vowel ㅔ, then ㄴ followed by ㅈ; the input method combines the final pair as ㄵ and forms 벥. The whole syllable has no separate key.

Unicode can represent the same syllable as three connected Hangul letters, called jamo: 벥. It treats that sequence as equivalent to the single character 벥. NFC, Unicode’s composed normalization form, recombines the three letters into 벥 when a text workflow needs one precomposed character.