Hangul syllable gut

궅 is one written syllable, not a Korean word with its own definition. It joins an initial consonant, a vowel and a final consonant; a full word supplies the meaning.

Hangul was devised in 1443; the 1446 Hunminjeongeum manuscript, a guide to the writing system, explains its design. Hangul let people write Korean without relying on borrowed Chinese characters, and later appeared in religious and practical books, private letters, and official writing. Unicode normalization can expose a syllable block as separate Hangul letters.