Questions tagged [hangul]
To be used with questions dealing with the writing or reading of Hangul (한글,) the official writing system of Korea.
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I want to understand the meaning behind my grandmothers and my moms Korean name
명길 - my halmuni’s name
영박 - my mother’s same
I’ve researched this years back and have learned they are both “male” names. The internet is inconsistent and I can’t seem to locate the information I had ...
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Could anyone help me write this quote in Korean Vertically?
I was wondering if anyone could help me with this writing in Korean. This quote “우리 함께면 세계는 아름다워” is a song lyric I want to get on a tapestry as well as a tattoo down my forearm. It is written out ...
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What is the korean word for the garlic-like herb known as "asafoetida" or "hing"?
There is an herb with a flavor similar to garlic and the name in Latin is asafoetida
What is the korean word in 한글 for this herb?
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Name
Afrikaans
duiwelsdrek
Arabic
ḥiltīt
Assamese
hiṅ (হিং...
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Is ᅟퟁ attested?
I happened to be curious why ᅟퟁ (old hangul Jamo for ㅣㅗㅣ) is written with the small ㅣ underneath instead of on the right, so I went to look at the Unicode proposal from 2006, skimmed through the ...
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What is the korean letter to represent the "oo" sound in the English word "moon"?
you can click on the following hyperlink to listen to how English Americans say the word "moon".
The same sound can be heard in the following English words:
tune
soon
noon
spoon
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What is a list of Korean words that contain the "UR" sound from the English word "URN"? What is the hangul symbol or glyph for the R-Colored Vowel?
What are examples of common Korean words that contain an "urrrr" sound or an "errr" sound?
The following is a table of English words that contain the R-Colored Vowel
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Are there korean words that contain the letter ㄹ that are not transliterations of European words?
Are there korean words that contain the letter ㄹ that are not transliterations of European words?
Many transliterations of European words use the letter ㄹ.
KoreanOrthography
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What Korean words have an "S" sound in them? What are example of words, in the Korean language, that contain the voiceless alveolar sibilant?
Many words in the English language contain a sound known as the voiceless alveolar sibilant
Examples of English words beginning with the voiceless alveolar sibilant are shown below:
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Is there a korean letter for the "Uh" in "Umbrella"? Alternatively worded, what is the hangul glyph for the open-mid back unrounded vowel?
Many English words contain the "uh" sound found in the word "umbrella".
That is, many English words contain the open-mid back unrounded vowel.
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What is the glyph in hangul for the open-mid front unrounded vowel (The "EH" sound in the English "echo" and English "Elk")?
What is the glyph in hangul for the open-mid front un-rounded vowel ?
The open-mid front un-rounded vowel is the same as the "EH" sound in the English language.
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What is the Korean symbol for the Near-open front unrounded vowel (The "AH" in "apple")?
What is the hangul symbol for the Near-open front unrounded vowel?
Alternatively worded, how do we write the "ah" sound in 한글?
In the English language we have the "AH" sound in &...
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Valid Variant ㅌ Stroke Order?
So apparently I've been doing ㅌ wrong but I do find some materials that show the way I do it, which is basically ㄷ but with the middle line added last.
https://i.etsystatic.com/8897793/r/il/3f3098/...
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How do we write the Korean word for Korean Radish Soup (Mu Guk) in hangul?
What is the hangul for Korean radish soup (mu guk)?
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What is the anglicization of 팻잎?
팻잎
When I want to preserve the sound of a Korean word and use English writing for 팻잎, then what do you suggest?
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is there difference between 소게 and 속에
I recently started to read short stories to enhance my vocabulary and and to understand the spelling. These two words 소게 and 속에 I know have different meanings but if someone says write "soge"...
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Were 치두음 and 정치음 ever written iotated?
Sejong the Great created 치두음 (ᄼ, ᄽ, ᅎ, ᅏ, ᅔ) and 정치음 (ᄾ, ᄿ, ᅐ, ᅑ, ᅕ) to distinguish sibilants. 치두음 were alveolar, and 정치음 were alveolo-palatal. These letters were not used in Korean orthography ...
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Vertical hangul quote
i wanted to get a tattoo of the famous quote "웃어라. 온세상이 너와 함께 웃을 것이다.
울어라. 너 혼자 울 것이다." from the movie Oldboy. Would it still make sense if It was written vertically?
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Hangul, but not vertical or horizontal [closed]
I know this might be a little too late, but I wanted the Hangul spelling of Dreamcatcher as a tattoo.
I know it should be written horizontally and read from left to right, but it was placed behind the ...
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How to convert chinese name into korean name?
I've done a lot of research due converting my chinese name to hangul, but I can't find out how, since my characters rarely used. How do I translate my chinese name: 汪凌飞 (Wang Ling Fei) to hangul ...
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Do these consonants admit an alternative pronunciation?
Since this question has to do with phonetics, I'll use IPA symbols to represent the sounds I want to describe.
I know that (if I am not mistaken):
ㄸ is an explicit [t] sound;
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Why does Wikipedia and Wiktionary list [mʷəː] as the pronunciation for 뭐?
I've noticed that some articles on Wikipedia and Wiktionary on Korean claim that the Korean word 뭐 is transcribed as [mwɘ(ː)] in IPA, with [ɘ] being the IPA symbol for the close-mid central unrounded ...
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Is there a repetition sign in Hangul?
By repetition sign, I mean something that is like 々 in Japanese and Chinese.
In both Japanese and Chinese, 々 can be used to suggest a repetition of the previous character. For example, 人人 can be ...
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Is there a difference between hangul digraphs or trigraphs and sequences of the respective single letters?
Hangul has a number of doubled letters (e.g. ㄲ or ᆖ), digraphs (e.g. ㅔ or ㄳ), and trigraphs (e.g. ㅞ or ㅴ).
Is there a distinction between these multigraphs and a sequence of the individual letters ...
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Is there a Korean font that can display arbitrary jamo combinations?
For every possible syllable in modern Korean, a precomposed Unicode character exists.
These syllables have at most:
2 choseong (e.g. ㅃ, arguably composed of ㅂ and ㅂ)
3 jungseong (e.g. ㅞ, composed of ...
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옛한글 on Safari not working
I have a Mac and use Safari as my default browser. Across my Mac, despite having several fonts that support it, 옛한글 does not render how it is supposed to. For example ᄀᆞᇫ다 just appears as a string of ...
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What is an easy to use, standard input method for writing Korean on a Macbook?
I am a total beginner for Korean and want to take notes for the vowels and consonnes I am learning like "eu" and "eo", or "k". What is a standard and convenient input ...
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How can I translate my Chinese name to a Korean name?
My name is 高安音 but I can't seem to find an appropriate translation into Korean.
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What is the word in this image?
The attached picture is of some Korean calligraphy, and as a sanity check I wanted to confirm how readable it is. Can anyone tell what this word is, and if so, how easy/hard was it to recognize it?
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What are some examples of reforms to Hangul proposed in the past?
Wikipedia mentions how historically, several spelling changes and even new characters were proposed for Hangul. What other changes have been suggested throughout the history of Korea?
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Does Korean render Japanese names according to how they are read in Hanja?
I observed once how the Japanese name “咲良” was rendered into Hangul as “사쿠라,” instead of its equivalent pronunciation in Hanja (which according to Google Translate is something like “소량”). Is this ...
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Is there a hangul syllable frequency list? (or most common every day hangul syllables?)
I want to create a hangul font but as I'm not going to do the full unicode block in one shot (or even at all) so I figured I could start with the most common/used syllables and release incremental ...
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Pronunciation of ㄷ(ㅅ, ㅈ, ㅌ, ㅊ, ㅆ, ㅉ) before ㄱ
I can't find information about right pronunciation of patchim ㄷ(ㅅ, ㅆ, ㅈ, ㅉ, ㅌ, ㅊ) before ㄱ. From what I can hear ㄷ should be silent. But I am not sure about it.
For example in words like 웃겨 I hear 우껴 ...
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A ㅜ that looks like a ㄱ, a bit confusing, is this common?
It took me a long time to figure out the first syllable is actually 우, for me it looked like ㅁㄱ although that would not be a real syllable, and neither would be ㅇㄱ.
It's not ambiguous but still ...
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Beginner learner of Hangul seeking clarifications
My goal is to learn all Hangul letters and their combinations in order to understand words I encounter and speak more fluently Korean. For this reason I have made the following, it is my own personal ...
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Distinguishing between nearly identical letters. (ㅎ and 종)
"ㅎ" is a single letter (hi-eut).
But it is not what appears in "종", where the "ㅗ" and the "ㅇ" are two distinct letters.
Is there something obvious (which I can'...
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is 'ㄹ' from 'ㅌ' in korean creation?
I have read an article of how the Korean letters were created, and according to that article, Korean consonants are created with the mechanism of "가획", which is making letters by adding a ...
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Why are 댜 뱌 챠 탸 퍄 햐 됴 툐 not used?
I am learning Hangeul and found this image on the Internet (I cannot locate the original source):
It seems like some of the syllable blocks are greyed out, which I think means it's not used. There's ...
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What Korean reader software aimed at learning pronunciation is available?
What I have in mind is something that highlights Hangul characters, and reads the highlighted characters aloud (possibly at a user-chosen speed, or possibly only when the user clicks on the syllable ...
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what does 그래서 누구냐고 무러본곤데 mean?
what does “ 그래서 누구냐고 무러본곤데” exactly mean in english? i tried translating it but it said “ Replying to @Fresh_Fresh“ in english which doesn’t make sense. please help me out!
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Why is ㅂ sometimes pronounced as ㅁ? What are the rules?
I'm brand new to learning Korean -- I have studied a little bit of Hangul to learn the sounds, and I just started Lesson 1 of Elementary Korean, 2nd ed. by King & Yeon.
In this lesson there is a ...
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Unusual hangeul syllables in 1920's handwritten Korean?
(This is a question about handwritten Korean, I don't have enough reputation to create a new tag for handwriting.)
My Korean grandfather's notebook contains a chronology of the places he went while ...
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How to tell syllables apart
I’ve just started to learn Korean, so I might be asking something that’s obvious... but I sometimes struggle how to do syllabication when it comes to writing. For example ‘kakyeok’ I thought would be ...
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Found a character on a texture and need help identifying it
I noticed on a texture I found there was this (what I presume is a) Korean character.
For a while, this was what I was looking for:
I managed to find a better picture:
Although still not super clear....
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Why are the unaspirated (ㅂㅈㄷㄱㅅ) and aspirated (ㅋㅌㅊㅍ) consonants ordered differently on 두벌식 (dubeolsik) keyboard layout?
When I was first learning to type Hangul, I quickly found a lot of logic in the 두벌식 layout. Consonants on the left, jamo that can be doubled in the top row, nasals in the middle, aspirated in the ...
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Composing sentences
How do I compose a sentences using -아/어요, -ㅂ니다, -고 싶어요, -지 마세요 and -러 가요. Can someone please explain and show me examples? I’m really desperate
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Pronunciation of 옥류관(玉流館)
玉流館 is a famous North Korean restaurant with many overseas branches.
The name of the restaurant is written in hangul as 옥류관, and transliterated as “Okryu-gwan”. If that is so, why is it pronounced ...
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Where can I learn Hangul without any Romanization at all
I am a complete beginner in Korean, and I am just trying to learn Hangul. I believe that it is better to learn Hangul and not associate any of the words or letters of Korean to Romanized alphabet. ...
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How was your experience learning to type in Hangeul on the keyboard?
What was it like for you to learn how to type in Korean on a keyboard? I'm two semesters so far in my Korean classes. One of my keen challenges has been typing in Korean on my smartphone and ...
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Korean words whose pronunciation differs unpredictably from the spelling
There are several Korean words which have a pronunciation that differs from the spelling in an unpredictable way, like 내과 (actually pronounced like 내꽈) and 여권 (actually pronounced 여꿘).1 As far as I ...
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Someone commented this on my Instagram
Someone wrote "캐존잘" on my Instagram. What does this mean? I have tried multiple sources but can't find anything.
