Hangul syllable Eul

In Korean, 을 is an object particle marking a verb’s object after a consonant-ending noun; its paired form, 를, follows a vowel-ending noun. Speakers may omit the particle when context makes the object clear.

Text symbol

What 을 means

It marks a verb’s object after a consonant-ending noun. After a vowel-ending noun, use 를.

Hangul, the Korean writing system, was created in the middle of the 15th century to fit Korean sounds; earlier writing used Chinese characters. Some 19th-century correspondence used -을 after vowel-final syllables.

Unicode also encodes the syllable as three joined Hangul jamo (consonant and vowel letters); fonts may arrange them differently.

Casual Korean can omit 을/를 when context makes the object clear; omission alone does not make a sentence wrong.

Part of the collection

가

Korean Syllables (Hangul Characters)

Who writes 을

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Don't confuse it with

를

Hangul Syllable Reul

을 vs 를: use 을 after a consonant-ending noun and 를 after a vowel-ending noun.

Questions people ask

Why does 을 show as a box on some devices?

Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.