Hangul syllable peuh

It is one syllable assembled from three Hangul jamo. The sequence ᄑ + ᅳ + ᇂ supplies an initial consonant, vowel, and final consonant. “Peuh” is Unicode’s construction label for those sound parts, not a translation. The word around the syllable supplies the meaning.

픟 follows Hangul’s syllable-building system. Hunminjeongeum, the Korean alphabet’s original name, is first recorded in 1443; an explanatory guide appeared in 1446 and described how initial, middle, and final letters form syllable blocks. Hangul was designed to make Korean speech easier to write than systems that borrowed Chinese characters. Earlier Korean writing used Hyangchal, Idu, and Gugyeol, which adapted Chinese characters to represent Korean words or grammar.

In 1894, a reform government made gukmun (“national writing”) official for government documents. The name Hangeul appears in the 1910s and spread widely by 1928. Joseon-era labels such as eonmun (“vernacular writing”) and the dismissive phrase “women’s writing” reflected the script’s lower status. Some scholars have proposed that the Mongolian Phags-pa script influenced a few Hangul letter shapes; this remains a hypothesis, not an established ancestor of 픟.

How do I type 픟?

A Korean input method builds it from three jamo. Enter initial ㅍ, vowel ㅡ, then final ㅎ; the input method groups them into one syllable block.

The precomposed block and 픟 may render alike, although one is a single code point and the other is three. That difference can affect exact-text matching and text processing; NFC normalization composes the decomposed form.