Hangul syllable Soh

It is a Hangul block whose word meaning depends on context. In Korean writing, each Hangul block groups letters into one syllable. 솧 combines initial consonant ㅅ, vowel ㅗ, and final consonant ㅎ. The letters show how the syllable is built, but they do not tell you what word a sender intended.

Hangul was devised in 1443 and described in the 1446 Hunminjeongeum manuscript, an introductory guide to the script. Korean speech differed from Chinese, and the available Chinese-character methods for writing Korean were difficult to learn; Hangul was designed to make learning and communication easier.

Why does 솧 have final ㅎ?

The final ㅎ is part of the syllable, not an extra mark. A Hangul block can contain an initial consonant, a vowel, and a trailing consonant called 받침. 솧 combines ㅅ + ㅗ + ㅎ. Without the final consonant, the result is 소, a different syllable.

A 2018 study traces many nouns ending in ㅎ in Middle Korean, an earlier stage of Korean, and follows how those endings disappeared over time. This connects final ㅎ to Korean language history, but it does not show that 솧 itself was one of those nouns.