🇰🇷 Korean
Hangul chart with sound
The complete Korean alphabet with romanization and recorded pronunciation for every letter and syllable. Hangul was designed to be learnable in a day, and it very nearly is — the letters are shaped like the mouth position that makes them.
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The letters (자모)
Basic consonants · 자음
- ㄱ 기역 · giyeok
- ㄴ 니은 · nieun
- ㄷ 디귿 · digeut
- ㄹ 리을 · rieul
- ㅁ 미음 · mieum
- ㅂ 비읍 · bieup
- ㅅ 시옷 · siot
- ㅇ 이응 · ieung (silent at start)
- ㅈ 지읒 · jieut
- ㅊ 치읓 · chieut
- ㅋ 키읔 · kieuk
- ㅌ 티읕 · tieut
- ㅍ 피읖 · pieup
- ㅎ 히읗 · hieut
Tense consonants · 쌍자음
- ㄲ 쌍기역 · ssanggiyeok
- ㄸ 쌍디귿 · ssangdigeut
- ㅃ 쌍비읍 · ssangbieup
- ㅆ 쌍시옷 · ssangsiot
- ㅉ 쌍지읒 · ssangjieut
Basic vowels · 모음
Compound vowels · 이중모음
Syllable table (가나다)
| Consonant | A | YA | EO | YEO | O | YO | U | YU | EU | I |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ㄱ | ||||||||||
| ㄴ | ||||||||||
| ㄷ | ||||||||||
| ㄹ | ||||||||||
| ㅁ | ||||||||||
| ㅂ | ||||||||||
| ㅅ | ||||||||||
| ㅇ | ||||||||||
| ㅈ | ||||||||||
| ㅊ | ||||||||||
| ㅋ | ||||||||||
| ㅌ | ||||||||||
| ㅍ | ||||||||||
| ㅎ |
How Hangul actually works
Letters stack into blocks, not lines
Korean writes one syllable per block. 한 is ㅎ + ㅏ + ㄴ arranged in a square. Once you see the block as three letters rather than one picture, reading is mechanical.
Consonant shapes are mouth shapes
ㄱ is the back of the tongue rising. ㅁ is closed lips. ㅅ is the airflow of an s. This is not folklore — it is how the alphabet was designed in 1443, and it makes the letters much easier to keep apart.
Vowels are one long line plus a tick
A vertical line with a tick on the right is ㅏ a. Add a second tick and it is ㅑ ya. Horizontal lines behave the same way. Two rules cover almost all the vowels.
Then read one real sentence
Hangul takes a day; reading at speed takes a few weeks of seeing it in context. Amiko shows romaja under every Korean line while you get there.
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