December 2008
Intermediate to advanced
912 pages
33h 22m
English
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Chapter 2: Writing Systems and Scripts
Katakana and kanji with similar formsTable 2-23.
Katakana Kanji
Hangul
Hangul ( hangeul) syllables are the characters that are used to express contemporary
Korean texts in writing.
*
Unlike Japanese kana, hangul is not a syllabic script, but rather
a script that is composed of elements that represent a pure alphabet and are composed as
syllables. How does one make the distinction between an alphabet and syllabary? Each
hangul syllable can be easily decomposed into hangul elements, which in turn represent
individual sounds (that is, consonants and vowels), not syllables. Hangul elements, which
do not carry any meaning, are commonly referred to as jamo (/ jamo), meaning
“alphabet.”
†
King Sejong ( sejong) of the Yi Dynasty completed the development of what is now
referred to as hangul back in the year 1443, and the work was ocially announced in
1446.
‡
Hangul is considered to be one of the most scientic—or, at least, one of the most
well-designed—writing systems due to its extremely regular and predictable structure.
Jamo are typically combined with one or two additional jamo to form a hangul syllable.
Table 2-24 lists a handful of hangul syllables, along with the jamo used to build them.
* e word hangul was coined sometime around 1910, and means “Korean script.”
† Sometimes referred to as jaso (
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