Hangul syllable Yip

Enter ㅇ, ㅡ, ㅣ, then ㅍ in a Korean input method.

The input method joins Hangul letters into a syllable block. Here, ㅡ and ㅣ combine into the vowel ㅢ; ㅍ closes the syllable, while ㅇ begins it without a sound.

Unicode’s canonical decomposition—the standard breakdown into equivalent parts—represents 읲 as 의 plus ᇁ. Here ᇁ is ㅍ in final position, at the end of a syllable. The generated Unicode label “Yip” comes from the component letter names; it labels the character, not an ordinary Korean word.

Why was Hangul created?

Hangul was devised to write Korean speech directly.

It was devised under King Sejong, ruler of Joseon, a Korean kingdom, in 1443. The 1446 Hunminjeongeum is a book explaining the script and how consonants and vowels combine into syllable blocks. Formal writing at the time relied heavily on Chinese characters; Hangul offered a direct way to write Korean.