Hangul syllable roel

It spells the sound structure of one Korean syllable.

Hangul groups consonant and vowel letters, called jamo, into syllable blocks. Here ㄹ starts the syllable, ㅚ is its vowel, and ㄹ closes it. The surrounding Korean word or name tells you what that syllable contributes.

How did Hangul develop?

It began as an alphabet shaped around Korean speech.

King Sejong introduced Hangul in Korea in the fifteenth century. The 1446 Hunminjeongeum, a book explaining the script, describes ㄹ. The 1527 Hunmongjahoe, a guide to Chinese characters, records 梨乙 as the name of ㄹ; its modern Korean name is 리을.

Hangul coexisted with Hanja, Chinese characters also used in Korean writing, and later became the main script for Korean. A unified Korean spelling proposal appeared in 1933; South Korea issued revised Hangul spelling rules in 1988. During a Korean typeface project spanning 2014–2016, designers used the drawing for 될 to make 뢸, then derived 룀, 룁, and 룃 from it.

How can I enter the block?

Enter the consonant, vowel, and final consonant with a Korean IME.

On a Korean keyboard with an input method editor (IME), enter ㄹ, then ㅚ, then ㄹ; the IME combines them into one syllable block. Unicode can also represent the same syllable as ᄅ ᅬ ᆯ, separate initial, vowel, and final jamo. This is its canonically decomposed form; text tools may display the parts separately. A font can change the drawn shape without changing the encoded character.