Hangul syllable Nyeoh

It is one Hangul syllable block; meaning comes from context. It combines the initial consonant ㄴ, vowel ㅕ, and final consonant ㅎ. These individual Hangul letters are called jamo; together, they spell one syllable. The full Korean word gives that syllable its lexical role.

녛 was not designed as a separate sign; it follows Hangul's regular way of combining letters into syllable blocks. The script is first recorded in 1443. The 1446 guide Hunminjeongeum explained its letters, sounds, and syllable-building method. Its stated purpose was to make Korean writing easier for people who could not use Chinese characters.

Hangul's role shifted across Korean history. Early publications included Buddhist scriptures, and later, Confucian scriptures were translated into it. Members of the royal family, enslaved people, and noblewomen used Hangul in letters and documents, while official writing remained mainly in Chinese characters until 1894. Japanese rule beginning in 1910 removed Hangul's national status; preservation, research, education, and literature helped keep it in public life. Chinese characters belong to the older writing tradition that shaped the need for Hangul, not to the makeup of this block.

How do I type 녛?

Turn on Korean input and press s, u, then g. On the standard two-set layout, those keys enter ㄴ, ㅕ, and ㅎ, which the input method assembles as 녛.

The sequence 녛 spells the same syllable using separate jamo. Unicode NFC normalization recomposes those letters as 녛; the sequence and the single block are different character sequences for the same syllable.