Hangul syllable Hyolp

It is one Korean syllable, not a complete idea.

The Unicode name “hyolp” labels the block’s components: ㅎ + ㅛ + final ㄿ. Jamo are the component letters that combine into Hangul syllable blocks; “hyolp” is not an English translation.

If someone sends only 횶, read it as an isolated syllable or a test string. The surrounding Korean text is needed to tell what word it belongs to.

Why does this block exist?

It is a precomposed block in Hangul’s compositional writing system.

Hangul was created in 1443 and promulgated in 1446 to make Korean easier to write than with Hanja, Chinese characters used for Korean. The new script was not universally accepted at first, and Hanja remained important. After Japanese rule ended in 1945, Hangul became Korea’s national script.

Unicode stores modern Hangul syllables such as 횶 as single precomposed blocks. Older or archaic syllables are represented with joined Jamo instead. The decomposed spelling of 횶 is ᄒ + ᅭ + ᆵ.

How do I type 횶?

On a Korean 2-set keyboard, enter gyfv.

With 2-set Dubeolsik, a Korean keyboard layout, type g for ㅎ, y for ㅛ, then f + v for final ㄿ. An input method that supports compound final consonants combines them as 횶.

Unicode can also store it as the Jamo sequence ᄒ + ᅭ + ᆵ. An editor using NFC, Unicode’s composed form, may store that sequence as the single block 횶.