Hangul Syllable Twae

퇘 is a single Korean syllable, read approximately “tweh.” Its first sound is ㅌ, a consonant said with a puff of air, and its vowel is ㅙ. By itself, 퇘 has no fixed word meaning; it contributes one syllable to a Korean word.

Hangul was created in 1443 and promulgated in 1446 through Hunminjeongeum, a text that introduced the script. It was designed to make Korean easier to learn and write than earlier reliance on Chinese characters and Idu, a way of writing Korean with Chinese characters. 퇘 is built from Hangul’s sound-writing elements, called jamo.

How do I type 퇘 on a Korean keyboard?

Use Korean 2-set input: type xho.

On a QWERTY keyboard set to Korean 2-set input, x produces ㅌ, h produces ㅗ, and o produces ㅐ. The input method joins ㅗ and ㅐ into ㅙ after ㅌ to form 퇘; the romanized spelling “twae” is a name for the sound, not the 2-set keystrokes.

Unicode also represents 퇘 as the canonically equivalent conjoining-jamo sequence 퇘. Some apps or fonts may show the components separately if Hangul shaping is unavailable. NFC normalization, a Unicode form that composes equivalent sequences, produces the single block.