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Letters packed into a square cell.
Also known as: Hangul block, Korean syllable square
The Korean convention writing the letters of a syllable into one square block rather than in a line.
Groups the letters of one syllable into a single written cell.
Contexts: Language and transcription
Makes hangul alphabetic in its letters and syllabic in its layout at once, which is why it occupies the same square grid as Chinese characters and can be set in the same columns; the block is a typographic decision that let a new alphabet sit inside an existing writing culture.
Contexts: Language and transcription
Two to five letter shapes arranged inside one notional square, the initial across the top or down the left and the vowel and any final packed around it.