Hangul syllable kwas

Nothing on its own — it is a syllable, not a word. 쾃 is the precomposed block for three Hangul letters, called jamo: the consonant ㅋ, the compound vowel ㅘ (itself ㅗ + ㅏ), and the final consonant ㅅ. Blocks like this write syllables; the surrounding word supplies the meaning, and as of 2026 no Korean dictionary lists 쾃 as a standalone word.

The sound does have a documented past. A study of Korean sound history cites fourteenth-century Chinese-character transcriptions that wrote an old Korean word glossed “flower” as kwas — a record older than the Hangul alphabet itself, created in 1443. It preserves an old pronunciation, not proof that the block 쾃 ever meant “flower”.

How do you type 쾃?

On a Korean two-set keyboard, press z, h, k, t.

Those keys produce ㅋ, ㅗ, ㅏ and ㅅ; the input method folds ㅗ + ㅏ into the vowel ㅘ and packs everything into one block. A Korean phone keyboard combines the same letters the same way.

Some software stores 쾃 as three position-specific jamo, ᄏ ᅪ ᆺ — the NFD normalization form; NFC reassembles it. Separated letters mean decomposed text, not a different syllable.