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The most notable exception is the name of the capital, Seoul, a native Korean word meaning 'capital' with no direct Hanja conversion; the Hanja gyeong (경, 京, 'capital') is sometimes used as a back-rendering. For example, disyllabic names of railway lines, freeways, and provinces are often formed by taking one character from each of the two ...
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 ...
Arirang (아리랑 [a.ɾi.ɾaŋ]) is a Korean folk song. [ 1 ] There are about 3,600 variations of 60 different versions of the song, all of which include a refrain similar to "Arirang, arirang, arariyo" (" 아리랑, 아리랑, 아라리요 "). [ 2 ] It is estimated the song is more than 600 years old. [ 3 ]
Aegyo. Aegyo (/ eɪˈɡɪoʊ /; Korean: 애교; Hanja: 愛嬌) in Korean is a normalized gendered performance that involves a cute display of affection often expressed through a cute voice, changes to speech, facial expressions, or gestures. [1][2][3] A similar expression is Gyotae (/ ɡɪoʊˈteɪ /; Korean: 교태; Hanja: 嬌態). Aegyo ...
t. e. Revised Romanization of Korean (국어의 로마자 표기법; Gugeoui romaja pyogibeop; lit. "Roman-letter notation of the national language") is the official Korean language romanization system in South Korea. It was developed by the National Academy of the Korean Language from 1995 and was released to the public on 7 July 2000 by South ...
v. t. e. 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.
Eun-chae, also spelled Eun-chay, or Eun-cheh, Un-chae, is a Korean feminine given name. Its meaning differs based on the hanja used to write each syllable of the name. There are 26 hanja with the reading "eun" and 17 hanja with the reading "chae" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be registered for use in given names.
Naver Dictionary was launched in 1999, supporting the English language. [3][4] It began launching mobile applications in 2010. [5] The product Line Dictionary, launched in 2014, was part of the platform. [2] By 2022, the platform reportedly had 60 different sub services, [6] and was the most popular online dictionary service in South Korea by 2021.