Hangul syllable Pwit

Its meaning comes from the Korean word it appears in. 퓥 is one Hangul syllable, a single block in the Korean writing system.

Hangul's earliest documentary record is dated to 1443. The 1446 explanatory book Hunminjeongeum describes how the script builds syllables from an initial consonant, a middle vowel, and an optional final consonant. King Sejong's project addressed a practical problem: Chinese characters and earlier Korean adaptations did not let ordinary speakers write Korean freely. Some Confucian scholars opposed the new script.

Over time, Hangul moved from contested new writing to a marker of Korean identity. The name Hangeul became widely used in 1928. That history belongs to Hangul as a whole, not to 퓥 specifically.

How do I type 퓥 on a Korean keyboard?

On a Korean keyboard, enter ㅍ + ㅟ + ㅌ. A Korean IME, or input method editor, combines the initial consonant, vowel, and final consonant into one syllable block in that order.

Unicode can represent 퓥 as one precomposed block or as the equivalent jamo sequence 퓥. Jamo are the consonant and vowel letters that make up Hangul syllables.

NFC keeps the precomposed block; NFD exposes its jamo. If you wonder why 퓥 shows as a box, check whether the app normalized the text and whether the font supports this Hangul syllable.