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Hangul is the official writing system throughout Korea, both North and South. It is a co-official writing system in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture and Changbai Korean Autonomous County in Jilin Province, China. Hangul has also seen limited use by speakers of the Cia-Cia language in Indonesia.
A Korean name in the modern era typically consists of a surname followed by a given name, with no middle names. A number of Korean terms for names exist. For full names, seongmyeong (Korean: 성명; Hanja: 姓名), seongham (성함; 姓銜), or ireum (이름) are commonly used. When a Korean name is written in Hangul, there is no space between ...
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.
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 ...
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) refers to ...
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.
Hangul (Korean: 한글) is the native script of Korea. It was created in the mid fifteenth century by King Sejong, [1][2] as both a complement and an alternative to the logographic Sino-Korean Hanja. Initially denounced by the educated class as eonmun (vernacular writing; 언문, 諺文), it only became the primary Korean script following ...
Hyun, also spelled Hyeon or Hyon, Hyoun, is a Korean surname, a single-syllable Korean given name, and an element in many two-syllable Korean given names. [1] As given name meaning differs based on the hanja used to write it. There are 42 hanja with the reading " hyun " [2] on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be ...