Hangul Syllable Peoj

Hangul combines letters into blocks, one block per syllable.

The script behind 펒 was created in 1443; Hunminjeongeum, a guide explaining it, followed in 1446. Hangul was designed to write Korean speech by arranging consonant and vowel letters into syllable blocks, rather than assigning a separate meaning to each block.

Earlier public names for the script included jeongeum and eonmun, then gukmun or gukseo; Hangeul spread as its name in the early 1900s. Those were names for the writing system, not new meanings for 펒.

How do I type 펒?

A Korean keyboard combines its three letters into one block.

On a Korean input method, enter the jamo (the consonant and vowel letters that build Hangul syllables) in order: ㅍ, ㅓ, then ㅈ. The first consonant ㅍ starts the block, ㅓ is its vowel, and ㅈ is its final consonant.

Text can store 펒 as one precomposed block or as separate jamo. Unicode normalization (standardizing equivalent text sequences) can switch between these forms without changing the displayed syllable.