ㅍ

Stroke order

The Hunmin Jeongeum Haerye, the treatise introducing the principles behind the Korean alphabet written by its inventor King Sejong in 1446, explains that this glyph was derived by adding strokes to ㅂ (b) to represent aspiration.

• IPA^(key): /pʰ/
• Actual realisation:

  (word-initially, between vowels, or after nasals and liquids) IPA^(key): [pʰ]

  (before stops, or word-finally) IPA^(key): [p̚]

  (before nasals) IPA^(key): [m]

ㅍ • (p)

1. 피읖 (pieup, “pieup”), a jamo (letter) of hangul, the Korean alphabet: the aspirated bilabial plosive ([pʰ])

• (aspirate plosives): ㅌ (t, “t”), ㅋ (k, “k”)
• (bilabials): ㅂ (b, “b”), ㅁ (m, “m”)