Hangul syllable 뱦

It is one Hangul syllable block, with no word-level translation by itself.

The block joins initial ㅂ, vowel ㅑ, and final ㅍ. These are Hangul jamo—the letters used to build a syllable. The glyph writes one syllable; it does not give you a word-level translation on its own.

Hangul’s history predates this block. The first recorded notice of Hunminjeongeum, the text that introduced the Korean alphabet, dates to 1443; an explanatory book appeared in 1446. Hangul was designed to write Korean speech with purpose-built letters grouped into syllable blocks, in a writing culture that relied heavily on Hanja, or Chinese characters. Examples of Hangul written horizontally, with letters unjoined into blocks, appeared in 1913 and 1915. Debate over this reform grew in the 1920s and 1930s because typewriters handled joined blocks poorly, but it failed to gain broad support.

How do I type 뱦?

Enter ㅂ, then ㅑ, then ㅍ in Korean input mode.

A Korean input method editor (IME) joins the initial consonant, vowel, and final consonant into one block. If the jamo stay separate, switch to Korean syllable composition.

Fonts place the jamo within a syllable cell, so stroke shapes and proportions can vary while the text remains the same character.