Hangul syllable pweoj

풪 alone has no standard word meaning. It is one Hangul syllable block built from ㅍ (starting consonant), ㅝ (vowel), and ㅈ (ending consonant). In a Korean word, it contributes one syllable and the word supplies the meaning; alone, it usually reads as an isolated syllable or fragment.

Hangul was designed for writing Korean speech. Before it, people also wrote Korean with Hanja (Chinese characters) and systems such as Idu, Gugyeol, and Hyangchal, which adapted those characters to Korean. That writing was difficult to learn and did not fit Korean speech neatly. Hangul's first official record is from 1443, during King Sejong's reign; the 1446 Hunminjeongeum, a guide to its new letters, explained how they worked. Buddhist translations and popular novels helped spread the script. From the late 19th century, reformers increasingly promoted Hangul as the national script; Hangul-only public writing became the norm in the 1990s.

Why does 풪 look different across fonts?

The font determines how this syllable is drawn. 풪 is one precomposed Hangul character containing a leading consonant, a vowel, and a final consonant. Unicode can also represent the same sequence as separate jamo, 풪; normalization can convert between the block and that sequence. Fonts may draw the block differently or show a missing-glyph box if they lack coverage. The character itself stays the same.

On a Korean input method, enter ㅍ, then ㅝ, then ㅈ; it joins them into 풪. If the parts remain separate, check the input method's Korean mode.