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Korean folk mythology states that most dragons were originally imugis (이무기; Imugi), or lesser dragons, which were said to resemble gigantic serpents.There are a few different versions of Korean folklore that describe both what imugis are and how they aspire to become full-fledged dragons.
Occasionally, however, the choice of sounds for transcription is influenced by Japanese. E.g.: brother → 브라더 beu-ra-deo (Japanese ブラザー bu-ra-za-a); dragon → 드래곤 deuraegon (Japanese ドラゴン do-ra-go-n). Like Japanese, transcription from English into Korean is largely based on Received Pronunciation (non-rhotic).
Different pronunciation rules (e.g. 넓다 – [널따] in South Korean, [넙따] in North Korean): The authors of this module are not familiar with North Korean pronunciation rules. There does not seem to be an authoritative online dictionary published by North Korea either.
This rule also extends to ㄴ n in many native and all Sino-Korean words, which is also lost before initial /i/ and /j/ in South Korean; again, North Korean preserves the [n] phoneme there. "female" ( 女子 ) – North Korea: ny ŏja ( 녀자 ), South Korea: y eoja ( 여자 )
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.
In the Kangxi Dictionary 14 characters (out of 40,000) are under this radical. It occurs as a phonetic complement in some fairly common Chinese characters, for example 聾 = "deaf", which is composed of 龍 "dragon" and the "ear" 耳 radical, "a word with meaning related to ears and pronounced similarly to 龍": "dragon gives sound, ear gives ...
Variant 1: daito or otodo Variant 2: taito Taito, daito, or otodo (𱁬/) is a kokuji (kanji character invented in Japan) written with 84 strokes, and thus the most graphically complex CJK character—collectively referring to Chinese characters and derivatives used in the written Chinese, Japanese, and Korean languages.
Naver Dictionary contains many definitions of words, a Korean audio pronunciation service, [1] and easy searching and accessibility of words. [8] It partners with and shows results from other dictionaries, including the Oxford Dictionary of English, [9] Collins English Dictionary, [10] Wiktionary, and Urban Dictionary. [9]