Hangul syllable Kwilt

큁 supplies one Korean syllable, not a complete message. It combines ㅋ as the initial consonant, ㅟ as the vowel, and ㄾ as a final consonant cluster made from ㄹ and ㅌ. “Kwilt” labels this sound pattern in Unicode; it is not a translation. A word or sentence supplies the meaning.

Work on Hangul, Korea's Korean writing system, dates to 1443 under King Sejong; the 1446 Hunminjeongeum guide explained its design and examples. Earlier methods such as Idu, gugyeol and hyangchal adapted Chinese characters to write Korean. Hangul introduced letters for Korean consonants and vowels, arranged into syllable blocks, giving Korean speakers a more direct way to write their language.

Before 1894, formal writing in Korea relied heavily on Chinese characters; in 1894, Hangeul became Korea's official national script. Hangeul faced suppression after Japanese rule began in 1910. In modern typefaces, the letters inside a Hangul block can sit differently—the spacing is font-dependent—but the encoded syllable stays together and is not split by a line break.