Korean Hangul syllable 룇

It contributes a syllable inside a Korean word or name. Hangul joins basic letters, called jamo, in initial-vowel-final order: 룇 uses ㄹ, ㅚ, and ㅊ. Its Unicode label “roec” names that sequence, not a translation.

Hangul was devised in 1443 and explained in 1446; its letters fit Korean speech better than Chinese-character writing methods.

Hangul became Korea's official writing system in 1894 and lost that status under Japanese rule in 1910. A debated proposal links Hangul's design to the separate Phags-pa script, not to this syllable's meaning.