Hangul Syllable Rulm

By itself, 룲 is one syllable, not a complete word.

It has a starting consonant, a vowel, and a final cluster of two consonants. These individual Hangul letters are called jamo. The Korean word around the syllable supplies its word-level meaning.

Why was Hangul created?

Hangul was designed around the sounds of Korean.

Hangul was created in 1443; a book explaining its purpose and design, Hunminjeongeum, was published in 1446. The script was designed to fit Korean speech and make writing accessible to people who did not use Chinese writing.

Before Hangul, Idu, Hyangchal, and Gugyeol adapted Chinese characters to write Korean; these were earlier writing practices, not alternate spellings of 룲. Hangul later appeared in Buddhist scriptures and Confucian works, then in translations, practical guides, primers, and literature. By the late 16th century, it also carried laws and institutional information. Korea recognized it as an official national writing system in 1894.

How do I type 룲 on a Korean keyboard?

A Korean input method combines its jamo into one syllable block.

The 룲 jamo sequence is ᄅ + ᅮ + ᆱ. On a standard Korean keyboard, enter ㄹ + ㅜ + ㄹ + ㅁ; the input method combines them into 룲. Unicode can store the same syllable as one block or as a sequence of separate jamo.

Fonts can place, shape, and size the components differently, so the same syllable may have different proportions.