Hangul syllable 븇

Read it as one syllable in Korean spelling.

Hangul groups Korean letters into syllable blocks. 븇 joins three component letters, called jamo: ㅂ starts the block, ㅠ is the vowel, and ㅊ ends it. The block contributes to a word's spelling; the whole word carries the lexical meaning.

How is 븇 built, and where does Hangul come from?

It follows Hangul’s regular initial-vowel-final pattern.

The script’s documentary history predates this individual block: a 1443 record names a 28-letter system, and the 1446 Hunminjeongeum (훈민정음) is a book explaining its sounds, structure, and use. Hangul was designed to write Korean speech directly rather than rely only on Chinese characters.

The same letter sequence can be stored as one precomposed block or as separate conjoining jamo, and application support for composing the separate form varies. Fonts may change the letters’ size, shape, and placement inside the block without changing its identity.