Hangul Syllable Kwet

It represents one Korean syllable, not a complete word. Its sound contributes to the Korean word around it; the whole word supplies the lexical meaning.

Why does this Hangul block exist?

It is a valid block made from an initial consonant, a vowel, and a final consonant. Hangul joins these sound letters into square syllable units. Unicode’s canonical decomposition of 퀱 is ᄏ + ᅰ + ᇀ, the position-specific initial, vowel, and final jamo. For keyboard entry, the corresponding isolated compatibility forms are ㅋ + ㅞ + ㅌ.

Hangul’s creation report dates to the end of 1443, and Hunminjeongeum, the guide that introduced the script, was published in 1446. The script was designed to make writing Korean more accessible than using Classical Chinese; these dates belong to Hangul as a whole, not to a separate invention of 퀱.

Earlier Korean writing could set jamo—the letters that make up Hangul—in sequences rather than use a modern precomposed block for each syllable. 퀱 follows the syllable-block pattern.

How do you enter 퀱?

Enter its component letters in a Korean IME. Type ㅋ, combine ㅜ and ㅔ into ㅞ, then add ㅌ; the IME assembles the block. These isolated forms are for keyboard entry; the position-specific canonical jamo form its decomposed sequence.

If an editor leaves the canonical jamo separate, NFC normalization can compose a valid Hangul sequence into one block. Fonts can vary the size and placement of the components, changing the silhouette without changing the encoded syllable.