Hangul syllable 풯

It has no fixed standalone translation.

풯 is a Hangul syllable made from three jamo, or letters: initial ᄑ, vowel ᅯ, and final ᇂ. The keyboard forms are ㅍ, ㅝ, and ㅎ. These parts identify the block’s written structure; a Korean word containing it supplies any meaning.

Hangul’s syllable system was introduced in Hunminjeongeum, a guide explaining a native Korean writing system. The National Hangeul Museum dates its first record to 1443 and the explanatory book to 1446. The system gave Korean speakers a way to write their language more directly, when formal writing relied heavily on Chinese characters.

Why is 풯 written as one block?

Hangul groups its letters into one syllable cell.

Unicode treats 풯 and the conjoining-jamo sequence 풯 as canonically equivalent: normalization can convert between the single block and its three-part form. To display the jamo sequence as one cell, an app and font must shape Hangul correctly.

After Korea’s 1894 Gabo Reform, Hangul was commonly called gukmun, meaning “national script,” or gukseo, meaning “national writing.” The name Hangeul appears in records from the early 1910s and was widely used by 1928.

Middle Korean, an earlier form of Korean, had nouns ending in the consonant ㅎ that later lost it; a 2018 study traces that change. This is history of final ㅎ in Korean, not evidence that 풯 itself is an archaic word.

How do I type 풯?

A Korean IME can assemble its parts in order.

Enter initial ㅍ, vowel ㅝ, then final ㅎ in a Korean IME. It combines them into the precomposed syllable 풯; if it leaves them as separate characters, it has not formed this block.