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5. Vowel

This is Hangul vowels list.

ㅏ [a]

ㅐ [æ]

ㅑ [ja]

ㅒ [jæ]

ㅓ [ʌ]

ㅔ [e]

ㅕ [jʌ]

ㅖ [je]

ㅗ [o]

ㅘ [wa]

ㅙ [wæ]

ㅚ [we]

ㅛ [jo]

ㅜ [u]

ㅝ [wʌ]

ㅞ [we]

ㅟ [wi]

ㅠ [ju]

ㅡ [ɨ]

ㅢ [ɨj]

ㅣ [i]

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4.Dot, Horizontal & Vertical line.

Dot, Horizontal line and Vertical line: these three are very important constructional elements of vowel in Hangul. These are called one word Cheonjiin (천지인). The significant point; You can make whole vowels in Hangul with Cheonjiin.

A word Cheon-ji-in is bound by each of meaningful units originated from Chinese character(한자).(Plenty of Korean words are compounded of several meaning contained units. Those words were derived from the pre-Hangul era when Chinese character was used as a main writing letter in Korea.)

‘ㆍ’는 하늘의 둥금을 본떴다, ‘ㅡ’는 땅 닮아 평평하게 하였고, ‘ㅣ’는 사람의 서 있는 모양을 본떠서 만들었다.

‘ㆍ’ Cheon means ‘Sky’, modeled after the round sky.

‘ㅡ’ Ji means ‘Ground’, modeled after the even ground(earth).

‘ㅣ’  In means ‘Human’, modeled after the standing shape human.

Next video contains Cheonjiin and Hangul graphic art with calligraphy. I think this video helps you understand Hangul.(I recommend you to watch this video at 02:15)

Hanguel Blossom 

Motion graphic: Jinah Min Calligraphy: Kang Byung In

2011

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3. Play with Hangul.

I’ve described the structure of Hangul previous posting. I think Hangul is ‘2D puzzle’ or ‘Alphabet puzzle’ that fills in the blocks with letters.

So, I would like to tell you another rules for solving this puzzle.

Very simple. First, you choose a consonant you would like to speak. It will become the core sound of the word like first alphabet in English word.

Second, you should locate the vowel, right side or down side of the first consonant. Vowel is only located on the right side of or below the first.(Some combination vowels occupy both.)

Finally, There still remains another space you could choose between take or not. Bottom side of the block is prepared all for this.

OK, now  Let’s do this game with this word, ‘ball’. [bɔ:l]

1. Ball’s first consonant is ‘B’. Switching to Hangul, ‘B’ becomes ‘ㅂ’. 

2. Ball’s vowel is ‘a’, but as you already know the Ball’s vowel sounds ‘o[ ɔ : ]’. So you should find a vowel ‘o’ sound in Hangul. -> ‘ㅗ’

3. How about connecting two things following rules above? ‘ㅂ’ + ‘ㅗ’

‘보’

4.The last thing of this posting. Attach the last consonant of ‘ball’. Alphabet ‘L’ is changed into Hangul ‘ㄹ’.

‘볼’

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2.Hangul? Hangle?

 Yes, officially ‘Hangul’ is right. But real pronunciation of Hangul is more similar to Han-gle. (I think it’s because of a gap between romanizing Korean and speaking English way.)

 Anyway,

 Korean words consist of combinations of letters like yours. However, Hangul follows distinctive rules to be transcribed not like yours.

 One Korean word is composed a union of units/blocks. And one unit/block  consists of one or two consonants and one vowel. Follows like this formula, [consonant + vowel (+ consonant)].

 For example, Hangul has two syllables, ‘han’ and ‘gul’. Let me show you the word ‘Hangul’ in Korean.

한 글

How about that? I think you can easily distinguish the word ‘Hangul’ syllable by syllable. Yes, 한글 can be separated by two syllable as I described, and you would speak this word 한[ha(:)n] 글[ɡɯl]. 

As I described, Hangul has itself the formula. And if you follow this rule: [consonant + vowel (+ consonant)], you can make the almost unlimited combination with Korean alphabet, even though we can’t speak them all.

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1. Hangul(Korean Alphabet)

This is for introducing Korean alphabet Hangul.

 Actually I’m not a fluent English user that sometimes make you confused.

But if you find some points of curious things in my posts, PLEASE let me know, I will fix those or attach more explanation for you.

Thanks.