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Kim Ju Ae [a] (Korean: 김주애; born c. 2012 or 2013) is a daughter of North Korean supreme leader Kim Jong Un and his wife Ri Sol Ju.The North Korean government has disclosed little information about her and much is unknown about her, including her birth date and name.
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.
Korean has 19 consonant phonemes. [1]For each plosive and affricate, there is a three-way contrast between unvoiced segments, which are distinguished as plain, tense, and aspirated.
[1] [2] [3] A similar expression is gyotae (Korean: 교태; Hanja: 嬌態; Korean pronunciation:). Aegyo literally means behaving in a flirtatious, coquettish manner and it is commonly expected for both male and female K-pop idols and is also expected or demanded from exclusively younger females in Korean society in a way which reinforces or ...
According to South Korean government data, it was the sixth-most popular name for baby girls in 1940. [4] By 1950 there were no names ending in "ja" in the top ten. [5] Some ways of writing this name in hanja include: 貞 子, first hanja meaning "chastity" or "purity" (곧을 정; godeul jeong).
For example, the hanja ' 不冬 ' signifies 'no winter' or 'not winter' and has the formal Sino-Korean pronunciation of ' 부동 ' budong, similar to Mandarin bù dōng. Instead, it was read as andeul ' 안들 ' which is the Middle Korean pronunciation of the characters' native gloss and is ancestor to modern anneunda ' 않는다 ', 'do
The Story of Sim Cheong or The Tale of Shim Ch'ŏng (Korean: 심청전; Hanja: 沈淸傳) is a Korean classical novel about a filial daughter named Sim Cheong. Simcheongga, the pansori version, performed by a single narrator, is believed to be the older version of the story, with the novel having been adapted from its script.
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.