Hangul syllable Kweogs

It is one syllable; its Korean word supplies the meaning.

쿿 combines initial ㅋ, vowel ㅝ and final consonant cluster ㄳ. Read it as one syllable in the Korean word around it; alone, it has no fixed translation. Unicode can also represent the syllable as conjoining jamo 쿿. A text engine may render those pieces as the same block, while another app exposes them separately; normalization helps compare the two text forms consistently.

Hangul was devised to write Korean speech more directly than Chinese characters or Idu, an earlier system that adapted Chinese characters for Korean. The script's first record under the name Hunminjeongeum appears in 1443; the 1446 Hunminjeongeum Haerye, a guide to the script, explains how initial consonants, vowels and final consonants form syllable blocks. Across later periods, it was called eonmun (vernacular writing), gukmun (national writing) and Hangeul. It appeared in royal, religious, household and practical writing before becoming Korea's official national script in 1894; these shifts describe the script's history, not extra meanings in this syllable.