Hangul syllable pyek

It spells one syllable sound; the word around it supplies meaning.

Hangul letters (jamo) ㅍ + ㅖ + ㄱ form it: initial consonant, vowel, final consonant. “Pyek” is a reading label, not a word meaning. Unicode can also represent it as separate letters; some text software shows that form.

Hangul was announced in 1443; its 1446 guide, Hunminjeongeum, introduced a sound-based way to write spoken Korean alongside the Chinese characters used in formal writing. Middle Korean, an earlier form of Korean, used this syllable in word parts whose pronunciation later changed.