Hangul syllable nwae

It is a Korean syllable pronounced roughly “n-weh.” In Hangul, 놰 spells initial consonant ㄴ plus vowel ㅙ, with no final consonant. On a standard Korean 2-beolsik keyboard, s-h-o enters the block.

King Sejong created Hangul in 1443; the script’s original name was Hunminjeongeum, also the title of a 1446 book explaining its design. The book says Korean speech differed from Chinese and explains how consonants and vowels combine into syllable blocks. The script also went by Jeongeum, Eonmun, and Banjeol; records suggest the name Hangeul was used from the early 1910s and became widespread after 1928.

Why might 놰 appear as separate jamo?

Unicode can represent the syllable as separate Hangul letters. Its separate form is 놰, the joining forms of ㄴ and ㅙ. An input method can also leave the standalone forms ㄴㅙ uncombined if Korean syllable composition is off. If the completed syllable appears as a box, the font lacks its glyph; fonts can also draw Hangul blocks differently.