Hangul Syllable Bet

Read it as one Korean syllable within a word. A Hangul block groups Korean letters into a single written syllable. 벹 is one block; the Korean word around it supplies its role.

Hangul was devised under King Sejong so Korean could be written more directly than with Chinese characters, which did not fit Korean sounds and grammar well. A December 1443 record says the king made 28 letters. A September 1446 record says Hunminjeongeum was completed; that name can mean the alphabet or its explanatory book, so the record may describe the book. Hangul later appeared in religious, medical, military, and language-learning texts.

Why does 벹 look different in different fonts?

Fonts can place and draw its parts differently. Hangul syllables occupy a block, but a font can vary the parts' position, shape, and size.

Unicode also allows 벹 to be represented as one precomposed syllable or as a sequence of conjoining jamo—the separate Hangul letters that form syllables. Text software can compose or decompose these representations without changing the Korean text.