What 붖 means
Read 붖 as one syllable in Korean spelling. Its initial jamo (a Hangul letter component) ᄇ, vowel jamo ᅮ, and final jamo ᆽ join in that order. The block is a spelling unit; a surrounding Korean word supplies the meaning.
Hangul was designed to represent Korean speech by combining consonants and vowels into syllables. The script’s first record appears in the Sejong Sillok, a record of King Sejong’s reign, in 1443; the Hunminjeongeum book, published in 1446, explains why the letters were created and how they form syllables.
Type 붖 as one Hangul syllable block
A Korean IME (input method) composes 붖 when you enter ㅂ, ㅜ, then final ㅈ in order.
Unicode can represent the same syllable as the precomposed block 붖 or as conjoining jamo (letters designed to join into syllables), ᄇ + ᅮ + ᆽ. Normalization can convert between these forms; software may store either representation, while fonts shape the visible result.
Questions people ask
1Why does 붖 look different in different fonts?
Hangul typefaces vary in stroke design and spacing. That changes how the character is drawn, not its identity.
How to type 붖
붖\BD96Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.
