Hangul Syllable Pwan

It gives a syllable sound; the surrounding word gives the meaning. 퐌 is pronounced roughly “pwan.” Its parts are the starting consonant ㅍ, the vowel ㅘ, and the ending consonant ㄴ. They show how to read the syllable, not which Korean word it belongs to. Within a word, use the whole word for meaning; alone, it is not enough to identify a sender’s intended word or reaction.

Where did Hangul come from?

Hangul was devised to write Korean more directly. King Sejong created the new script, then called Hunminjeongeum, in 1443; a book published under that name in 1446 explained its design and purpose. It was meant to make Korean easier to read and write than relying on Chinese-character conventions.

Early Hangeul publications included Buddhist and Confucian works. After centuries of official Chinese-character use, Korea made Hangeul its official national writing system in 1894. The script’s public role grew from a new way to write Korean to a national standard; 퐌 follows its rules for combining Korean sounds.

How do I type 퐌?

Use Korean input and enter the syllable’s parts in order.

On the common Korean 2-set layout, which has separate consonant and vowel keys, switch to Korean input and press v h k s: v enters ㅍ, h enters ㅗ, k enters ㅏ, and s enters ㄴ. The input method combines ㅗ+ㅏ into ㅘ before adding ㄴ.

Typing pwan while the keyboard is in Latin input will not produce 퐌. Software can store the precomposed block 퐌 or the decomposed sequence 퐌: Unicode NFC and NFD forms use different underlying code-point sequences but can display the same syllable.