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This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Korean on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Korean in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.
The Idu script was used to write both native Korean expressions as well as Chinese characters (Hanja) that still retained their original meaning and Chinese pronunciation (loanwords). The basic words were commonly Chinese in origin, written in Hanja, and pronounced approximately in the same way as in Chinese (on). However unlike Classical ...
Some words experience tensification of initial plain consonants, in both native and Sino-Korean words. It is proscribed in normative Standard Korean, but may be widespread or occur in free variation in certain words. [36] Examples: 가시 /kasi/ "1) thorn; 2) worm" is pronounced 까시 /k͈asi/
By 2022, the platform reportedly had 60 different sub services, [6] and was the most popular online dictionary service in South Korea by 2021. [7] Naver Dictionary contains many definitions of words, a Korean audio pronunciation service, [1] and easy searching and accessibility of words. [8]
Basic Korean Dictionary (Korean: 한국어기초사전; Hanja: 韓國語基礎辭典) is an online learner's dictionary of the Korean language, launched on 5 October 2016 by the National Institute of Korean Language. [1]
Sino-Korean words constitute a large portion of South Korean vocabulary, the remainder being native Korean words and loanwords from other languages, such as Japanese and English to a lesser extent. Sino-Korean words are typically used in formal or literary contexts, [5] and to express abstract or complex ideas. [7]
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It's been suggested that we agree on a system for indicating the pronunciation of Korean words that have Wikipedia articles, so that there isn't inconsistency for example in writing "ㅡ" as [ɯ] or [ɨ]. We could put up a key in Help space, and link to it from the transcriptions, the way we do now for Irish, Russian, French, Italian, Hebrew, etc.