Hangul Syllable Hyap

One Korean syllable; its word gives it context.

Its decomposed jamo (Hangul letters) are 햪: initial ㅎ, vowel ㅑ, and final ㅍ. Normalization, the way software standardizes text, can store these letters separately or recombine them as 햪.

Hangul made Korean easier to write than Chinese characters or Korean adaptations of them. Its earliest record is dated 1443; the 1446 guide Hunminjeongeum explains its design. It spread into daily writing, became Korea’s official system in 1894, and took on national meaning as scholars preserved it under Japanese suppression after 1910.