What 페 means
It has no fixed meaning alone; its word supplies it.
Hangul blocks combine ㅍ, a consonant, and ㅔ, a vowel. Korean-to-Latin spelling writes 페 as pe; ㅍ has a puffed p, and ㅔ sounds like the e in “bed.”
King Sejong’s court designed Hangul to make Korean easier to learn than Chinese characters. It was developed in 1443 and introduced in 1446. A 1995 comparison by the National Institute of Korean Language records the spelling split.
Don't confuse it with
1Questions people ask
1Why does 페 show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
How to type 페
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType D398, then Alt+X to get 페.
Windows
Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win + .).
macOS
Control+Command+SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “hangul syllable pe”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType d398, then Enter or Space.
HTML
페CSS
\D398How to type 페
With a Korean keyboard or input method, enter ㅍ then ㅔ; it combines them into 페.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
페
HTML hex
페
CSS content
content: "\D398";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%ED%8E%98
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.