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e. The Korean alphabet, known as Hangul[a] or Hangeul[b] in South Korea (English: / ˈhɑːnɡuːl / HAHN-gool; [1] Korean: 한글; Korean pronunciation: [ha (ː)n.ɡɯɭ]) and Chosŏn'gŭl in North Korea (조선글; North Korean pronunciation [tsʰo.sʰɔn.ɡɯɭ]), is the modern writing system for the Korean language. [2][3][4] The letters ...
A certain name written in Hangul can be a native Korean name, or a Sino-Korean name, or even both. For example, Bo-ram (보람) can not only be a native Korean name, [23] but can also be a Sino-Korean name (e.g. 寶濫). [24] In some cases, parents intend a dual meaning: both the meaning from a native Korean word and the meaning from Hanja.
Hunminjeongeum. McCune–Reischauer. Hunminjŏngŭm. 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. King Sejong the Great ...
t. e. Hanja (Korean : 한자 ; Hanja : 漢字, Korean pronunciation: [ha (ː)ntɕ͈a]), alternatively known as Hancha, are Chinese characters used to write the Korean language. After characters were introduced to Korea to write Literary Chinese, they were adapted to write Korean as early as the Gojoseon period. Hanja-eo (한자어, 漢字 語 ...
t. e. Korean (South Korean: 한국어, Hangugeo; North Korean: 조선어, Chosŏnŏ) is the native language for about 81 million people, mostly of Korean descent. [a][2][3] It is the national language of both North Korea and South Korea.
The name Korea is an exonym, derived from Goryeo or Koryŏ. Both North Korea and South Korea use the name in English. However, in the Korean language, the two Koreas use different terms to refer to the nominally unified nation: Joseon or Chosŏn (조선, 朝鮮) in North Korea and Hanguk (한국, 韓國) in South Korea.
Korean mixed script (Korean: 국한문혼용; Hanja: 國漢文混用) is a form of writing the Korean language that uses a mixture of the Korean alphabet or hangul (한글) and hanja (漢字, 한자), the Korean name for Chinese characters. The distribution on how to write words usually follows that all native Korean words, including suffixes ...
Jeong. Jeong, also spelled Jung or Jong, Chung, Chong is a single-syllable Korean given name, and an element in many two-syllable Korean given names. [1] Its meaning differs based on the hanja used to write it. There are 84 hanja with the reading " Jeong " [2] on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be used in given names.