Hangul Syllable Nweot

On its own, 눹 shows one Korean syllable; context supplies the word meaning.

“Nweot” is a romanized Unicode label for the syllable, not an English word that translates it. Read 눹 within a Korean word; the surrounding syllables reveal that word's meaning.

Hangul was created under King Sejong in 1443 to make Korean easier to write than by adapting Chinese characters. The 1446 text 훈민정음 (Hunminjeongeum, “Correct Sounds for the Instruction of the People”) presents the script; Korean historical guidance notes debate over whether 1446 marks completion of the script or of that text. Before Hangul, Idu, Gugyeol, and Hyangchal were Korean writing methods that adapted Chinese characters to represent Korean. 눹 is assembled from Hangul jamo, not borrowed from Chinese writing. Digital encoding gives the syllable a text representation; it did not create a new meaning.

What are the letters inside 눹?

It combines an initial ㄴ, vowel ㅝ, and final ㅌ.

Unicode can represent this syllable as one precomposed block or as three jamo: ᄂ + ᅯ + ᇀ. Normalization can switch between those forms and compose the block again. The representation changes, but the syllable does not.

How do I type this syllable block?

A Korean input method can assemble it from its jamo.

Switch to Korean input and enter ㄴ + ㅝ + ㅌ; the input method joins the letters into one syllable block. If an app exposes the separate jamo after normalization, the text is represented differently; the syllable is unchanged.