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For example, 보람 can not only be a native Korean name, [7] but can also be a Sino-Korean name (e.g. 寶濫). [8] In some cases, parents intend a dual meaning: both the meaning from a native Korean word and the meaning from hanja. A name for administrative units is hyphenated from the placename proper: [5]: 7
A specimen of the identity information page of a South Korean passport, displaying the romanization of the bearer's name (Lee Suyeon) for international legibility. The romanization of Korean is the use of the Latin script to transcribe the Korean language. There are multiple romanization systems in common use.
Standard Korean Language Dictionary (Korean: 표준국어대사전; lit. Standard National Language Unabridged Dictionary) is a dictionary of the Korean language, published by the National Institute of Korean Language.
The following tables of consonants and vowels (jamo) of the Korean alphabet 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).
Basic Hanja for educational use (Korean: 한문 교육용 기초 한자, romanized: hanmun gyoyukyong gicho Hanja) are a subset of Hanja defined in 1972 (and subsequently revised in 2000) by the South Korean Ministry of Education for educational use. Students are expected to learn 900 characters in middle school and a further 900 at high school.
Bit-na (pronounced and sometimes romanised Bin-na) is a Korean feminine given name. Unlike most Korean given names, it is not composed of Sino-Korean morphemes which can be written with hanja, but is an indigenous Korean word: the root form of the Korean verb binnada , meaning "to shine". [2] People with this name include:
When Korea was under Japanese rule, the use of the Korean language was regulated by the Japanese government.To counter the influence of the Japanese authorities, the Korean Language Society [] (한글 학회) began collecting dialect data from all over Korea and later created their own standard version of Korean, Pyojuneo, with the release of their book Unification of Korean Spellings (한글 ...
The modern Korean punctuation system is largely based on European punctuation, with the use of periods (마침표, machimpyo), commas (쉼표, swimpyo), and question marks (물음표, mul-eumpyo). [ 4 ] [ 1 ] Modern Korean is typically written horizontally using European punctuation.