Hangul Syllable Pyon

It is one Korean syllable, and its meaning comes from the word around it. 푠 is assembled from three Hangul letters: initial ㅍ, vowel ㅛ, and final ㄴ. It contributes one syllable inside a Korean word.

The script's creation is first recorded in 1443; a book explaining it, Hunminjeongeum, appeared in 1446. Chinese characters were used to write Korean but did not fit the spoken language well. Hangul was designed to be easier to learn and use in daily life.

Hangul's role shifted from writing used alongside Hanja (Chinese characters used in Korean) to the primary script for modern Korean. Its names changed too: early names included Jeongeum and Eonmun; Gukmun and Gukseo were used after 1894; Hangeul appears in records in the early 1910s. These names track the script's changing status.

How do I type 푠?

Use a Korean IME with Dubeolsik: type V-Y-S. On an English QWERTY keyboard, type V, then Y, then S. The IME composes ㅍ, ㅛ, and ㄴ as 푠. In English input mode, those keys type Latin letters; other Korean layouts map the letters to different keys.

Fonts may space the parts differently. Editing or text normalization may show the equivalent sequence of Hangul letters ㅍㅛㄴ instead of the block; it is still the same syllable, kept together for text segmentation and line breaks.