Hangul Syllable Hyop

훂 is a Hangul block with no standalone dictionary meaning.

Its construction is ㅎ + ㅛ + ㅍ: an initial consonant, a vowel, and a final consonant. Unicode builds its name from those component labels; the name describes the construction, not the meaning of a Korean word.

How do I type 훂?

On a Korean two-set keyboard, press G, then Y, then V.

Those keys enter ㅎ, ㅛ, and ㅍ, which the Korean input method assembles into the syllable block. The same syllable can be entered as the conjoining jamo ᄒ + ᅭ + ᇁ and normalized to NFC. Fonts may shift the size and placement of its three parts without changing the encoded text.

Why was 훂 made?

훂 uses Hangul's system for arranging letters into syllable blocks.

The Sejong Annals, a royal chronicle, record the new letters in 1443; Hunminjeongeum, a book explaining the new alphabet's principles, followed in 1446. Hangul was designed to write Korean speech and teach its sounds in a system fitted to Korean, rather than relying on Chinese writing.

Early Hangul appeared in Buddhist scripture, literature, education, translations, and letters. During the Japanese colonial period, Korean writing also carried national-identity weight. Phags-pa, a square script used in the Yuan-era, is a debated possible influence on Hangul's design, not an established ancestor of 훂. A unified spelling proposal anchored the modern system in 1933; spelling was partly revised in 1988.