Hangul syllable Uls

Not on its own: 욼 is a Hangul syllable block.

Unicode decomposes it into ᄋ (initial consonant), ᅮ (vowel), and ᆳ (final cluster); the familiar jamo labels are ㅇ, ㅜ, and ㄽ.

Hangul was designed to write Korean sounds in a system ordinary people could learn more easily than writing with Chinese characters (hanja). Its earliest surviving court record dates to late 1443; the Hunminjeongeum, the text introducing the script, was completed in 1446. Early elite resistance gave way to standard use. At a word’s end, ㄽ is normally pronounced like ㄹ, close to an English l, so “Uls” is not a pronunciation guide.