Hangul syllable myop

묲 is one Korean syllable block, not a complete word.

It joins ㅁ, ㅛ, and ㅍ into one spoken syllable. The surrounding Korean word supplies its meaning; sent alone, 묲 leaves the reader with an unexplained syllable.

On the standard Korean 2-set keyboard, A, Y, V enter ㅁ, ㅛ, and ㅍ in order, and the Korean input method joins them into 묲.

How did Hangul blocks begin?

They let alphabetic letters represent Korean speech in syllable blocks.

Before Hangul, formal writing in Korea relied heavily on Chinese characters. Hangul provided an alphabetic way to write Korean speech, which differed from Chinese. The writing system is called Hangul in South Korean usage and Choseongul in North Korean usage; both names refer to the same script. The first recorded mention of the new script is in Sejong Sillok, the royal annals, in 1443. Its explanatory book, Hunminjeongeum (“Correct Sounds for the Instruction of the People”), appeared in 1446 and explains the letter design and the initial, vowel, final structure of a block. Those dates document Hangul’s early record, not this individual syllable.

Why does 묲 look different in different fonts?

The font arranges the same letters inside a syllable cell.

Unicode can store 묲 as one syllable character or as its equivalent sequence of three Hangul letters. A font that supports Hangul arranges those letters in a square syllable cell; stroke shapes and spacing can vary by font without changing the character.