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  2. Hanja - Wikipedia

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    For example, the name for the Hanja 水 is 물 수 (mul-su) in which 물 (mul) is the native Korean pronunciation for 'water', while 수 (su) is the Sino-Korean pronunciation of the character. The naming of Hanja is similar to if water , horse and gold were named "water-aqua", "horse-equus", or "gold-aurum" based on a hybridization of both the ...

  3. Hangul - Wikipedia

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    Korean alphabet letters and pronunciation. Letters in the Korean alphabet are called jamo (자모; 子母). There are 14 consonants (자음; 子音) and 10 vowels (모음; 母音) used in the modern alphabet. They were first named in Hunmongjahoe , a Hanja textbook written by Choe Sejin. Additionally, there are 27 complex letters that are ...

  4. Romanization of Korean (North Korean system) - Wikipedia

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    For example, 보람 can not only be a native Korean name, [7] but can also be a Sino-Korean name (e.g. 寶濫). [8] In some cases, parents intend a dual meaning: both the meaning from a native Korean word and the meaning from hanja. A name for administrative units is hyphenated from the placename proper: [5]: 7

  5. Chae (Korean given name) - Wikipedia

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    There are 17 hanja with the reading Chae on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be registered for use in given names; they are: [1] 菜 (나물 채 namul chae ): vegetable 採 (캘 채 kael chae ): to lift

  6. Ruby character - Wikipedia

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    Ruby characters or rubi characters (Japanese: ルビ; rōmaji: rubi; Korean: 루비; romaja: rubi) are small, annotative glosses that are usually placed above or to the right of logographic characters of languages in the East Asian cultural sphere, such as Chinese hanzi, Japanese kanji, and Korean hanja, to show the logographs' pronunciation; these were formerly also used for Vietnamese chữ ...

  7. Initial sound rule - Wikipedia

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    The flag hung at the founding ceremony of the Korean People's Army in 1948 reads, 'Long live General Kim Il-sung, the leader of our people!'During the North's brief use of the initial sound rule, the Sino-Korean term "領導者" (leader) is spelled using the initial sound rule: 영도자 yeongdoja instead of ryeongdoja 령도자.

  8. Help:IPA/Korean - Wikipedia

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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.

  9. Basic Hanja for Educational Use - Wikipedia

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    Basic Hanja for educational use (Korean: 한문 교육용 기초 한자, romanized: hanmun gyoyukyong gicho Hanja) are a subset of Hanja defined in 1972 (and subsequently revised in 2000) by the South Korean Ministry of Education for educational use. Students are expected to learn 900 characters in middle school and a further 900 at high school.