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The Korean alphabet, known as Hangul [a] ( English: / ˈhɑːnɡuːl / HAHN-gool; [1] Korean : 한글 ; Hanja : 韓㐎) in South Korea and Chosŏn'gŭl ( 조선글 ; 朝鮮㐎) in North Korea, is the modern writing system for the Korean language. [2] [3] [4] The letters for the five basic consonants reflect the shape of the speech organs used ...
Hangul ( Korean : 한글) is the native script of Korea. It was created in the mid fifteenth century by King Sejong, [1] [2] as both a complement and an alternative to the logographic Sino-Korean Hanja. Initially denounced by the educated class as eonmun (vernacular writing; 언문, 諺文 ), it only became the primary Korean script following ...
Hangul consonant and vowel tables. The following tables of consonants and vowels ( jamo) of the Korean alphabet ( Hangul) display (in blue) the basic forms in the first row and their derivatives in the following row (s). They are divided into initials (leading consonants), vowels (middle), and finals tables (trailing consonants).
Modern Korean is written in the Korean script (한글; Hangul in South Korea, 조선글; Chosŏn'gŭl in North Korea), a system developed during the 15th century for that purpose, although it did not become the primary script until the 20th century. The script uses 24 basic letters (jamo) and 27 complex
Korean writing systems. The romanization of Korean is the use of the Latin script to transcribe the Korean language. Korea's alphabetic script, called Hangul, has historically been used in conjunction with Hanja (Chinese characters), though such practice has become infrequent.
Hanja were once used to write native Korean words, in a variety of systems collectively known as idu, but by the 20th century Koreans used hanja only for writing Sino-Korean words, while writing native vocabulary and loanwords from other languages in Hangul. By the 21st century, even Sino-Korean words are usually written in the Hangul alphabet ...
Hieut (character: ㅎ; Korean : 히읗; RR : hieut) is a consonant letter ( jamo) of the Korean Hangeul alphabet. The Unicode for ㅎ is U+314E. It has two pronunciation forms, [h] at the beginning of a syllable and [t̚] at the end of a syllable. After vowels or the consonant ㄴ it is semi-silent. [1] [2] [3]
This is a list of Korean surnames, in hangul alphabetical order. The most common Korean surname (particularly in South Korea) is Kim ( 김 ), followed by Lee ( 이) and Park ( 박 ). These three surnames are held by around half of the ethnic Korean population. This article uses the most recent South Korean statistics (currently 2015) as the basis.