Hangul syllable cwalt

As of 2026, Korean dictionaries don’t list 촱 as a word. Hangul syllable blocks place an initial consonant before a vowel and may add a final consonant or consonant cluster. This one combines ㅊ, ㅘ, and ㄾ. The Unicode name “cwalt” labels those parts; it is not a Korean word. Read 촱 within a Korean spelling, where neighboring syllables show its role.

Hangul, the writing system this syllable belongs to, was developed to represent Korean speech and make reading more accessible to people who did not know Hanja, Chinese characters also used in Korean writing. The earliest surviving creation record dates to 1443, and a guide explaining the script was completed in 1446. In later history, Hangul moved from use alongside Hanja to Korea’s main writing system.