Hangul ( , or Korean ) is the native alphabet of the Korean language, as distinguished from the logographic Sino-Korean hanja system. It is the official script of North Korea, South Korea and the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture of China. Hangul is a phonemic alphabet organized into syllabic blocks. Each block consists of at least two of the 24 Hangul letters (jamo), with at least one each of the 14 consonants and 10 vowels. These syllabic blocks can be written horizontally from left to right as well as vertically from top to bottom in columns from right to left. Originally, the alphabet had several additional letters (see obsolete jamo). For a phonological description of the letters, see Korean phonology. (more)
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Grapheme:
In typography, a grapheme is the fundamental unit in written language. Graphemes include alphabetic letters, Chinese characters, numerals, punctuation marks, and all the individual symbols of any of the world's writing systems. In a phonemic orthogra
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List of Korea-related topics:
This is a list of articles on Korea-related people, places, things, and concepts. For help on how to use this list, see the introduction below.
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Sejong the Great of Joseon:
Sejong the Great (May 6 1397 - May 18 1450, r. 1418 - 1450) was the fourth king of the Joseon Dynasty of Korea. He is best remembered for creating the native Korean alphabet hangul, despite strong opposition from the scholars educated in hanja (Chine
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List of Hangul Jamo:
This is the list of Hangul Jamo with obsolete Hangul (old Hangul). This list contains information of location in Unicode mapping. "Hanyang Private Use" is mapping system which is used in Hangul (word processor). This system map old Hangul to Private
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Korean romanization:
Korean romanization is a system for representing the Korean language using the Roman alphabet. In Korea, the Korean language is written using hangul, and sometimes hanja.
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Seong Sammun:
Seong Sammun (1418 - 1456) was a scholar-official of early Joseon who rose to prominence in the court of King Sejong the Great (ruled 1418 - 1450). He was executed after being implicated in a plot to dethrone King Sejo (r. 1455 - 1468) and restore hi
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Romaja:
Romaja literally means Roman letters in Korean, and refers to the Roman alphabet. "Romaja" is not to be confused with "romanization." The former can be applied to any use of the Roman alphabet in Korean text—whether for Korean or non-Korean words or
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Hangul supremacy:
Hangul supremacy is an ideology or a belief held by the Korean people and certain linguists from around the world that Hangul is superior to all (or most) other writing systems. While there are many distinguishing features of Hangul that forms the ba
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Hunmin Jeongeum Haerye:
Hunmin Jeong-eum Haerye (lit. "Explanations and Examples of the Correct/Proper Sounds for the Instruction of the People"), also called the Haerye Edition of Hunmin Jeong-eum or simply The Haerye, is a commentary on the Hunmin Jeong-eum, the original
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Hangul Day:
Hangul Day — also called Hangul Proclamation Day or Korean Alphabet Day — is a Korean national commemorative day marking the invention and the proclamation of hangul, the native alphabet of the Korean language, by King Sejong the Great. I
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Korean Language Society:
Korean Language Society is a society of hangul and Korean language research, founded in 1908 by Kim Jeongjin. It established a Korean orthography (한글 맞춤법 통일안) in 1933.
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Choe Sejin:
Choe Sejin (1473-1542) was a Korean linguist, educator, and a proponent of hangul. His courtesy name was Gongseo (공서; 公瑞). Choe devised the modern South Korean order of the hangul letters, and assigned names to the letters. His most famous book on ha
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Hangul orthography:
Hangeul machumbeop, often romanized to Hangul Matchumbeop, could be translated to "Korean orthography (rules)". It often appears as the title of spelling dictionaries or other publications of orthographic guidelines.
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Choe Manri:
Choi Man-ri (sometimes spelled Choi Mal-li) was a deputy minister for education in the Privy Council (集賢殿副提學) who spoke against the creation of hangul (then called Eonmun) together with other Confucian scholars in 1444. He made the following submissi
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Hanja:
Hanja is the Korean name for Chinese characters. More specifically, it refers to those Chinese characters borrowed from Chinese and incorporated into the Korean language with Korean phonetics. Hanja-mal or hanja-eo refers to words which can be writte
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Korea under Japanese rule:
Korea under Japanese rule refers to the period between 1910 and 1945 when Korea was forcibly occupied by the Japanese Empire. Japan's involvement began with the 1876 Treaty of Ganghwa during the Joseon Dynasty of Korea and increased with the subseque
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Brāhmī script:
Brāhmī script refers to the oldest members of the Brahmic family of alphabets. The best known inscriptions in Brāhmī are the rock-cut edicts of Ashoka, dating to the 3rd century BCE. These were long considered the earliest examples of Brāhmī writing,
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McCune-Reischauer:
McCune-Reischauer romanization is one of the two most widely used Korean language romanization systems, along with the Revised Romanization of Korean, which replaced (a modified) McCune-Reischauer as the official romanization system in South Korea in
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Hunmin Jeongeum:
Promulgated in September or October 1446, Hunmin Jeongeum (lit. The Correct/Proper Sounds for the Instruction of the People) was an entirely new and native script for the Korean people. The script was initially named after the publication, but later
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Hall of Worthies:
The Hall of Worthies or Jiphyeonjeon was set up by King Sejong of the Joseon Dynasty in Korea in 1420. It consisted of scholars selected by the king. The Hall participated in various scholarly endeavors, of which the best-known may be the compilation
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Gari Ledyard:
Gari Keith Ledyard (b. 1932, Syracuse, New York) is Sejong Professor of Korean History Emeritus at Columbia University. He is best known for his work on the history of the hangul alphabet.
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Featural alphabet:
A featural alphabet is an alphabet wherein the shapes of the letters are not arbitrary, but encode phonological features of the phonemes they represent. Examples include the following: *Gregg Shorthand *Hangul — Korean *Shavian alphabet *Tengwar (a f
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Ju Sigyeong:
Ju Si-gyeong (December 22, 1876 - July 27, 1914) was one of the founders of modern Korean linguistics. He was born in Bongsan County (봉산군; 鳳山郡), Hwanghae Province. He and his students helped standardize the Korean language, based spelling and grammar
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New Orthography for the Korean Language:
New orthography for Korean language was the official Korean orthography in North Korea from 1948 - 1954. It was the most morphophonological of Korean orthographies. It added five consonant jamo and one vowel jamo to hangul, which were: 1. For conveni
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