Hangul syllable Paeh

It spells one Hangul syllable; the surrounding word gives meaning. The three building-block letters are called jamo: ㅍ is the initial consonant, ㅐ the vowel, and ㅎ the final consonant.

Hangul was created for Korean during the Joseon dynasty, when Korean was commonly written using Chinese characters, a system that was difficult for ordinary people to use for Korean speech. The earliest recorded notice of its creation dates to 1443. In 1446, the explanatory book Hunminjeongeum Haerye (Explanations and Examples for the Instruction of the People through Correct Sounds) described its letters and how they form syllables. Its postface says the shapes imitate old seal script, an ancient style of Chinese writing; scholars differ on what that phrase means, so it is not a settled explanation of Hangul's design. Hangul later became the alphabet used for Korean, and digital text builds syllable blocks from the same jamo.

How do I type 퍃?

Enter ㅍ, then ㅐ, then ㅎ in a Korean input method. A Korean keyboard input method combines those parts into one block. Unicode can also store the syllable as the decomposed jamo sequence 퍃. NFC normalization joins that sequence into 퍃; NFD separates it again. Font designs may change the shapes and spacing while the text remains the same.