Hangul syllable pyol

It spells one syllable; the surrounding word supplies the meaning. A lone 푤 gives you a syllable, while the Korean word around it tells you how to understand it.

Hangul was designed as a systematic way to write Korean because Chinese characters did not map neatly onto Korean speech. The script was announced in 1443; its explanatory book was published in 1446.

Hangul groups consonant and vowel letters, called jamo, into syllable blocks. Here, ㅍ is the opening consonant, ㅛ the vowel, and ㄹ the final consonant. 푤 is one syllable within a spelled word.

How do I type 푤 with a Korean keyboard?

With Korean input active, type ㅍ, ㅛ, then ㄹ. On the standard two-set Korean keyboard, those jamo are on the v, y, and f keys. The input method joins the opening consonant, vowel, and final consonant into 푤 as you type. With an English layout active, those keys produce Latin letters.

Unicode can store a Hangul syllable as one prebuilt block or as a sequence of its individual jamo. Fonts can change the components’ placement, shape, and size without changing the character. If the bottom ㄹ is absent, the block is 표, a different syllable.