Hangul syllable Meonj

It is one Korean Hangul syllable block, not a word translation.

Hangul groups letters called jamo into blocks. Here, ㅁ begins the block, ㅓ is its vowel, and ㄵ closes it as a final cluster. The combination shows how the syllable is spelled; it does not supply a word meaning by itself.

Its history belongs to Hangul

Hangul was developed under King Sejong as a writing system for Korean. Korean had long been written largely with Chinese characters; Hangul offered a system designed for the language. Records of Hangul date to 1443, and an explanation of its design and purpose appeared in 1446.

Hangul became an official writing system in 1894, after Chinese characters had dominated official documents. For digital text, the Unicode Hangul syllable set follows Johab, a Korean computer character set included in standard KS C 5601-1992.

How do I type 먽?

A Korean IME can build it from its jamo.

Enter the initial ㅁ, vowel ㅓ, and final cluster ㄵ in that order. Exact keystrokes depend on the keyboard layout, but a Korean IME arranges the parts as a syllable block.

The same syllable can appear as this precomposed character or as its underlying jamo sequence. Fonts arrange the component shapes differently, changing their strokes, spacing, or size without changing the text.