Hangul syllable Buh

It spells one Korean syllable; the surrounding word supplies the meaning.

붛 combines the consonant ㅂ, the vowel ㅜ, and final consonant ㅎ. In its decomposed Unicode form, those parts are ᄇ, ᅮ, and ᇂ.

Why are Hangul syllables written in blocks?

Hangul groups sound parts into a block for each syllable.

Hangul was designed to write Korean speech with reusable consonant and vowel letters, as part of a writing tradition that also used Chinese characters. An early name for the system was Hunminjeongeum. The Sejong Annals first record that name in 1443; an explanatory book about the writing system followed in 1446.

The script was also called jeongeum, eonmun, gukmun, and gukseo at different times; Hangeul became its familiar modern name. 붛’s underlying pieces are ᄇ, ᅮ, and ᇂ: the opening consonant, vowel, and closing consonant.