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  2. Hangul - Wikipedia

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    Letters in the Korean alphabet are called jamo (자모). There are 14 consonants (자음) and 10 vowels (모음) used in the modern alphabet. They were first named in Hunmongjahoe , a hanja textbook written by Choe Sejin. Additionally, there are 27 complex letters that are formed by combining the basic letters: 5 tense consonant letters, 11 ...

  3. List of Hangul jamo - Wikipedia

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    Hangul jamo characters in Unicode Hangul Compatibility Jamo block in Unicode Halfwidth Hangul jamo characters in Unicode. In the lists below, code points in orange were added in Unicode 5.2. [1] These should form a syllabic square when conjoined with other jamo characters, but unupdated fonts, browsers or systems may not be able to do so.

  4. Hanja - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Names of Korea - Wikipedia

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    The earliest records of Korean history are written in Chinese characters called hanja.Even after the invention of hangul, Koreans generally recorded native Korean names with hanja, by translation of meaning, transliteration of sound, or even combinations of the two.

  6. Origin of Hangul - Wikipedia

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    The Hunmin Jeong-eum Eonhae, a version of Sejong's proclamation of the Korean alphabet with the explanatory Chinese characters glossed in the Korean alphabet. Note that these glosses, but not the Korean text, use the null symbol ㅇ at the end of a syllable when there is no final consonant, a convention found only in this one document.

  7. Hangul consonant and vowel tables - Wikipedia

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    With 19 possible initial consonants, 21 possible medial (one- or two-letter) vowels, and 28 possible final consonants (of which one corresponds to the case of no final consonant), there are a total of 19 × 21 × 28 = 11,172 theoretically possible "Korean syllable letters" (Korean: 글자; RR: geulja; lit.

  8. Hwarang - Wikipedia

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    A South Korean cigarette brand issued to the armed forces was called "Hwarang". Hwa Rang Do is a modern Korean martial art that is inspired by the ancient Hwarang warriors and their legacy. In the fighting game series Tekken, a playable character named Hwoarang is present in the game, and fights with the Tae Kwon Do fighting style.

  9. List of Korean given names - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of Korean given names, in Hangul alphabetical order. See Korean name § Given names for an explanation. List Ga ...