Hangul Syllable Cyess

It spells a Korean syllable; the surrounding word supplies its meaning. Its jamo (Hangul building letters) are ᄎ, the starting consonant; ᅨ, the vowel; and ᆻ, the ending consonant. Fonts can draw the block differently, but those three parts stay in the same order.

Hangul was designed to make Korean easier to write than systems using Chinese characters. Its creation was recorded in 1443, and an explanatory book appeared in 1446. It spread through books, letters, and everyday labels, became Korea's official writing system in 1894, and lost that status after Japanese rule began in 1910. Some scholars propose that Phags-pa, a square script used under the Mongol empire, influenced Hangul's block design; that proposed link concerns the script's layout, not the ancestry of 촀.