Hangul syllable Pyulh

Treat it as a spelling unit, not a translated word. As of 2026, no standalone Korean meaning is established for 퓷.

The spelling has three parts: initial consonant ㅍ, vowel ㅠ, and final consonant cluster ㅀ. Unicode, the standard that gives text characters stable identities, labels the block “pyulh” to describe this arrangement; that label is not a Korean word to translate. The cluster ㅀ also appears in other Korean syllable spellings.

Hangul was created in 1443, and its explanatory guide, Hunminjeongeum, appeared in 1446. The script made it possible to write Korean without relying solely on Chinese characters; it later carried translations, practical books, teaching texts, and literature. Those milestones belong to Hangul’s history, not to an old use for 퓷.

What does ㅀ do?

Its sound changes with the next sound. In the Korean words 싫다 (“to dislike”), 옳다 (“to be right”), 끓다 (“to boil”), and 앓다 (“to be ill”), ㅀ is not a fixed “l-h” sequence. Before a vowel, ㅎ drops and ㄹ links to the next syllable; before ㄱ, ㄷ, or ㅈ, ㅎ gives the following consonant a stronger puff of air. Do not read “pyulh” as a literal pronunciation guide.

Middle Korean, an earlier form of the language, had many nouns with a breathy h sound at the end. Many such endings later disappeared or changed; modern spellings with ㅀ preserve related patterns. That history explains the cluster, not an ancient use for 퓷.

Why can 퓷 look different?

Fonts can change the drawing, not the character.

Unicode can represent 퓷 as one precomposed block or as jamo, Hangul’s consonant and vowel letters. NFD, Unicode’s decomposed text form, separates the block into jamo; NFC, its composed form, can join them back into one block. These forms are canonically equivalent, meaning Unicode treats them as the same text, although an editor or font may display their shapes differently.