hangul

HANGUL at a glance ( Korean Alphabet)

Hangul was created and promulgated by King SEJONG in 1446. Hangul is a phonemic alphabet organized into syllabic blocks. Each błock consists of two or three of 24 letters: consonant + vowel (+consonant).

14consonants :ni_i=E!nfciAoxx=)E3iś 10 vowels : h [= Ą Ą _l jx -r -n- _ |

n [g]	=1 [k]		Tl [ kk] as in Cognac			i [r.l] =	[r] 23 [1]
I- [n]	1= [d]			[t]	CC [tt] as in Printemps
□ [m]	td [b]		u [P]		UH [pp] as in Paris
A [s]	A [j]		*	: [ch]	XX strong [s]		30C [ jj ] as in Mozart
O no sound before vowe!		1, [ng] after vowel		r [h]	Z	i [z]
U [v]	I [f]		n [5]asinthis		IT1 [0] as in thing
I" [a]	1	^ [ya]	i	1 [ae]	f	1 [yae]
H [9]	=	1 [ya]		1 [e]	1	1 [ye]
-L [0]	_LL [yo]		-*■	1 [0,6]	-^1-	1" [wa]	^XH [wae]
T [u]	TT [yu]		T	1 [ii.wi]	T	1 [wa]	"p|| [we]
- [eu] as in Renault	1	[i]	—	1 [eui]	* n =7,X=A, * =		X, * = X , Ś = o
m\Ł\ Paris	3	1LH river	Al	i# Seoul	uHO|*J Beijing		2HiH wagon
New York	oil “i! Yemen		$	Waterloo	£12. Tokyo		seven
Tr£ł Schumann	2	i| Ej| Goethe	when		za	rS zoom up	i]|r>| feather
UHM battle	million		$1	#a| weekly	AHJE° shadow		y£a.| valley
picture	HM' Cognac		zeitung		£[£] winę		Thank you
łasili telephone	“| tu in French		22 O	i long	Copenhagen

The six consonants u, x, n, m, = n were madę by Jaigyoung Choe and not in use in Korea. They are introduced here as a possible means of recording the pronunciations nonexistent in Korean language.

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