Hangul syllable Mwep

It is one Korean syllable block built from three letter parts. The word around it gives the syllable its meaning.

Hangul's letter parts are called jamo: an opening consonant, a vowel and, here, a final consonant. For 뮆, they are ᄆ + ᅰ + ᇁ.

This block was not separately invented; it follows Hangul's design for writing the language of Joseon and arranging sounds into syllable blocks. The earliest record of Hunminjeongeum, a guide introducing the script, dates to 1443; it was published in 1446. Earlier names included jeongeum and eonmun. The name Hangeul appears in records from the early 1910s and was widely used by 1928.

How do I type 뮆?

Use Korean input to assemble its letter parts.

Switch to Korean input and type ㅁ, ㅜ, ㅔ, then ㅍ. A Korean input method combines those keystrokes into the block. In Unicode's decomposed form, its jamo sequence is ᄆ + ᅰ + ᇁ.

A Unicode-aware editor may store the syllable precomposed as 뮆 or as conjoining jamo. NFC normalization, the standard composed form, joins modern Hangul jamo into the syllable; the stored representation changes, but the reading does not.