Hangul syllable Hweolb

It spells a Korean syllable; its word supplies the meaning. 훫 joins the initial consonant ㅎ, the vowel ㅝ, and the final cluster ㄼ. These parts are jamo—Hangul letters that combine into a syllable block. The Unicode label Hweolb describes the written parts; it is not a translation.

In the 15th century, Hunminjeongeum, a guide to the newly devised Hangul alphabet, presented a writing system learners could use without first mastering Chinese characters. Hangul syllables were designed as blocks of initial, middle, and final parts. 훫 follows that design; it is a Unicode encoding of a syllable block, not a separate historical sign.

Unicode can store 훫 as decomposed jamo—훫—instead of one precomposed block. A font may make the two forms look alike, but their stored character sequences differ; Unicode normalization can convert between them.

How do I type 훫 on a Korean keyboard?

On Korean 2-Set (Dubeolsik) input, type gnjfq.

On a QWERTY-labelled keyboard with Korean input active, g, n, j, f, and q produce ㅎ, ㅜ, ㅓ, ㄹ, and ㅂ. The input method combines ㅜ+ㅓ into ㅝ and final ㄹ+ㅂ into ㄼ, forming 훫. With an English layout active, those keys produce Latin letters.