Hangul syllable Twa

It is a Korean spelling syllable, not a word by itself.

톼 is pronounced roughly as a t released with a puff of air, followed by wa, in one syllable. It combines the Korean initial consonant ㅌ and compound vowel ㅘ, with no final consonant. In its Unicode decomposition, the parts are ᄐ and ᅪ; these individual Hangul letters are called jamo. In a Korean word, the surrounding syllables provide the meaning.

Hangul, the Korean writing system, was created in 1443 and explained in a 1446 publication. It was designed to be easier to learn, and it appeared in Buddhist and Confucian works as well as texts about practical knowledge. An 1880 Korean textbook for Japanese learners shows 톼 in a pronunciation chart as a consonant-plus-compound-vowel example. That is a teaching example, not evidence that the block was a standalone word. Unicode's 1996 encoding milestone dates the computer representation, not the syllable's historical origin.

How do I type 톼?

A Korean IME assembles it from ㅌ and ㅗ + ㅏ.

With a Korean input method (IME), enter ㅌ, then ㅗ followed by ㅏ to form ㅘ; the IME combines them into a syllable block. If the field briefly shows separate jamo while you type, that is the composition stage.

Unicode can store the same text as precomposed 톼 or as the equivalent sequence ᄐ + ᅪ. NFC is the composed form; NFD keeps the jamo separate. Software that compares exact character sequences should normalize them first.