Hangul syllable 꿸

It is a future form of 꿰다, “to thread through.”

Pronounced roughly “kkwel,” 꿸 is built from three Hangul letters, or jamo: ㄲ at the start, ㅞ as the vowel, and ㄹ at the end.

In 꿸 수 있으며, it means “and can thread …”; in 꿸 것입니다, “will thread.” In both phrases, the surrounding Korean words complete the thought.

How did Hangul begin?

Hangul was deliberately designed for writing Korean. The Sejong Sillok, Korea’s royal annals, first records the name Hunminjeongeum in lunar December 1443. The Hunminjeongeum guide explaining the new letters was published in 1446.

Before Hangul, people wrote Korean with Chinese characters and adapted systems such as Idu; these made Korean sounds and grammar harder to represent directly. Hangul introduced letters for Korean sounds arranged in syllable blocks. The name Hangeul became widely used after 1928; a unified spelling proposal followed in 1933, and the modern spelling system was partly revised in 1988. Chinese characters, called Hanja in Korean, remained in use, so the change was not an overnight replacement.

What is 꿸 connected to?

꿸 joins Hangul letters into one syllable block. A possible influence on Hangul’s design was Phags-pa, a square script based on Tibetan and used by the Yuan empire. That connection concerns the writing system’s design; it does not make Phags-pa a direct ancestor of 꿸.

Unicode stores 꿸 as one block, but the same three letters can also be encoded separately as jamo. If a font or app does not combine the separate letters, they can appear separately on screen.