Hangul syllable hwab

Alone, 홥 gives a syllable, but not a clear word or message. Its romanized spelling is hwab; the final ㅂ closes like a brief p without a vowel afterward, which explains the pronunciation spelling hwap.

Hangul was designed to represent Korean speech more directly than Chinese-character writing. A record of Hunminjeongeum, the script's original guide, appears in Sejong Sillok, a royal chronicle, in 1443; the explanatory book followed in 1446.

On the standard Korean 2-set keyboard, g h k q builds 홥. The input method joins ㅗ + ㅏ into ㅘ before completing the block.

How is 홥 built from ㅎ ㅘ ㅂ?

It combines an initial consonant, a vowel, and a final consonant.

ㅎ is the initial consonant, ㅘ the vowel, and ㅂ the final consonant. These Hangul letters are often called jamo. Unicode can also represent the block as the decomposed sequence ᄒ + ᅪ + ᆸ; the visible block arranges the letters into one syllable.

On the standard 2-set keyboard, g gives ㅎ, h gives ㅗ, k gives ㅏ, and q gives ㅂ. The input method joins ㅗ + ㅏ into ㅘ; these Latin letters identify key positions, not sounds.