Hangul syllable ryoss

It is one written Korean syllable assembled from three Hangul letters. The technical label “ryoss” spells its initial consonant ㄹ, vowel ㅛ, and final consonant ㅆ; it is not a translation of the block.

Hangul’s creation is recorded in 1443. A guide called Hunminjeongeum, published in 1446, explains its system of initial, middle, and final letters. Hangul was designed to make spoken Korean easier to write and read.

Hangul later moved from vernacular writing alongside Hanja (Chinese characters used in Korean texts) to the primary script for Korean. The component letters in 룠, called jamo, are also encoded as individual Hangul letters.

How do I type 룠?

In a Korean IME, enter ㄹ, then ㅛ, then ㅆ. An input method editor turns keystrokes into Hangul and combines those letters into 룠.

On the two-set Korean keyboard (Dubeolsik), enter initial consonant, vowel, then final consonant; ㅆ uses the shifted tense-consonant key. Some software can store the parts separately, but Unicode normalization can combine them into the same syllable.