Hangul syllable 룛

By itself, 룛 has no word-level meaning. It is one Hangul syllable, built from initial ㄹ, vowel ㅛ, and final consonant cluster ㅀ; read it within the Korean word that contains it.

Hangul was devised in 1443 and introduced in Hunminjeongeum, a guide to the script published in 1446. Earlier approaches such as Idu, Gugyeol, and Hyangchal used Chinese characters to write Korean sounds and grammar, but required specialist knowledge.

Hangul later spread from court use into Buddhist and Confucian books, practical manuals, letters, labels, and everyday writing. In 1894 it became the official national writing system. South Korea usually calls the script Hangul; North Korea calls it Chosŏn'gŭl.

how do I type 룛?

A Korean IME joins the jamo as you type. Enter initial ㄹ, vowel ㅛ, then final ㄹ and ㅎ; the last two form ㅀ. Unicode also has a canonically equivalent decomposed form, 룛, which text normalization may use instead of precomposed 룛.

why does 룛 look different?

Fonts and shaping support can change its outline or spacing. Hangul places an initial consonant, vowel, and final consonant within a square syllable cell. A text shaper may arrange decomposed jamo into that block or leave the parts separate; the visual difference does not change the syllable.