Hangul Syllable Haep

Use Korean input: press ㅎ, ㅐ, then ㅍ.

The 햎 keyboard sequence on the standard Korean 2-set layout is g-o-v. A Korean input method (IME) joins the letters into one block as you type; other layouts place those letters on different keys.

What does 햎 mean?

It is one Korean syllable, not a complete word.

The Korean pronunciation of 햎 is roughly “haep,” with a light breath at the start and a clipped p at the end. It combines initial ㅎ, vowel ㅐ, and final ㅍ. A Korean word or sentence around it supplies the meaning. Before Hangul, Korean was also written with Hanja, Chinese characters used in Korean writing.

Hangul was designed so Korean speech could be written more directly and learned more easily. The Sejong Sillok, a set of royal court annals, first records Hangul in 1443; the Hunminjeongeum, a book explaining the letters, followed in 1446. The writing system was also called eonmun (“vernacular writing”) and gukmun or gukseo (“national writing” or “national script”); Hangeul became its widely used name in the early 20th century. Those names refer to the writing system, not a special meaning of 햎.