학 글

my earlier post already says what is 학 글 [Hangul], so now let's see the alphabets.
but before that, some more explainations:


Most English speakers think Korean has thousands of characters, like Chinese, but it actually has a very simple and logical alphabet, which you can learn in a few minutes. The alphabet was invented in 1443 during the reign of the Great King Sejong. There are 14 basic consonants and 10 basic vowels. Letters that have similar sounds also have similar shapes, so it is easy to learn.


The Korean written language uses two types of characters: hangul and hanja. A hangul character is a single syllabic character created by combining one or more consonant signs and a vowel sign. There are 24 basic elements (14 consonants and 10 vowels), or phonemes, used to denote these signs; these elements are called jamos. You can create up to 51 jamos by combining two or more basic elements to form additional vowels or consonants, called compounds. Compounds and basic elements together comprise 21 vowels (10 basic vowels and 11 compound vowels) and 30 consonants (14 basic consonants and 16 compound consonants). Jamos are shown in Figure 7-4 below.

above are the names of each  alphabets
except for the vowels that's the way to pronounce it


basic consonants : there's 14


ㅁ > M    ㅊ > Ch    ㄷ > D    ㄹ > L / R    ㅎ > H    ㅂ > B     ㄱ > G  
ㅇ > ...(if at the first place) / Ng
ㄴ > N    ㅅ > S    ㅍ > P    ㅈ > J    ㅌ > T    ㅋ > K




combined consonants : there's 16


ㄸ > dd    ㅆ > ss    ㅃ > bb    ㄲ > kk    ㅉ > jj  
(ㄽ     ㄼ     ㄺ      ㅀ     ㄻ     ㄾ    ㄿ  -   mostly used as ending consonants)
[i'm sorry, my laptop doesn't want to combine the last combined consonants but you could see the picture above]

A hangul character (syllabic) consists of an initial consonant, a medial vowel, and sometimes a final consonant. Nineteen of the 30 consonants can be initial consonants. All 21 vowels can be medial vowels, and 27 of the 30 consonants can be final consonants. This means that 11,172 hangul character combinations are possible, though far fewer are actually used. The Wansung code page encodes the most common hangul character combinations, and the Johab code page covers all possible combinations. The Korean language also adopted hanja characters from Chinese and uses them for more formal written communication and to represent personal names. Most daily communications are written in hangul.

these are some of the examples of combining consonants and vowels

how ever, some consonants happen to have the same sound as an ending consonants
there are 10 of them :
 ㅊ/ㄷ/ㅎ/ㅈ/ㅌ = 'T'
ㅋ/ㄱ/ㄲ = 'K'
ㅂ/ㅍ = 'B'




You can hear how the letters are pronounced on other web sites, such as indiana.edu/~koreanrs/hangul.html.
ok, now you know 학 글 
that's it for today....