Hangul syllable Byaegs

It contributes one syllable to a Korean word or name. Hangul blocks join jamo—the letters that build syllables. Its decomposition is ᄇ, ᅤ, and ᆪ. Unicode’s “byaegs” label describes these parts, not a translation.

King Sejong of Joseon, Korea’s kingdom at the time, created the Korean writing system Hunminjeongeum in 1443; an explanatory book with that title appeared in 1446. Its letters let people write Korean sounds alongside Chinese characters used in official writing. After the Gabo Reform of 1894, it was commonly called gukmun or gukseo; “Hangeul” entered use in the early 1910s, though its first use is disputed.