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Hyangchal (Korean: 향찰; Hanja: 鄕札; lit. 'vernacular letters', 'local letters', or 'corresponded sound') is an archaic writing system of Korea and was used to transcribe the Korean language in Chinese characters. Using the hyangchal system, Chinese characters were given a Korean reading based on the syllable associated with the character. [1]
Idu (Korean: 이두; Hanja: 吏讀; lit. 'official's reading') was a writing system developed during the Three Kingdoms period of Korea (57 BC-668 AD) to write the the Korean language using Chinese characters ("hanja"). It used Hanja to represent both native Korean words and grammatical morphemes as well as Chinese loanwords.
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
Gugyeol used specialized markings, together with a subset of hanja, to represent Korean morphological markers as an aid for Korean readers to understand the grammar of Chinese texts. Also, the idu and the hyangchal systems appear to have been used primarily to render Korean into hanja ; on the other hand, gugyeol sought to render Chinese texts ...
Hunminjeongeum (Korean: 훈민정음; Hanja: 訓民正音; lit. 'The Correct/Proper Sounds for the Instruction of the People') is a 15th-century manuscript that introduced the Korean script Hangul. The name of the manuscript was also the original name of the script.
Hunminjeongeum Haerye (Korean: 훈민정음 해례; Hanja: 訓民正音解例; lit. ' Explanations and Examples of the Proper Sounds for the Instruction of the People '), or simply Haerye, is a commentary on the Hunminjeongeum, the original promulgation of the Korean script Hangul. It was first published in 1446. [1]
Korean writing systems; Hangul; Chosŏn'gŭl (in North Korea) New Korean Orthography; Hanja; Gukja ; Gugyeol; Idu ; Mixed script; Braille; Transcription; McCune–Reischauer; Romanization of Korean (North) Revised Romanization (South) Bok Moon Kim romanization Kontsevich (Cyrillic) Kholodovich system (Cyrillic) Transliteration; Yale (scholar)
Korean calligraphy, also known as Seoye (Korean: 서예), is the Korean tradition of artistic writing. Calligraphy in Korean culture involves both Hanja (Chinese logograph) and Hangul (Korean native alphabet). Early Korean calligraphy was exclusively in Hanja, or the Chinese-based logography first used to write the Korean language.