hangul

English - English

Definition of hangul in English English dictionary: The phonetic alphabet used to write the Korean language; form of capitalized form, hangul; {i} script used to write the Korean alphabet; A Korean subscript that consists of blocks of component glyphs called Jamo that are characters different from typical character clusters in that they are treated as singular units in memory; there are no principal characters and attachments; The name of the script used to write the Korean language; An alphabetic script used to write the Korean language As used by the Korean writing system, this script is primarily phonemic because each symbol generally corresponds to a single phoneme These symbols are further organized graphically into blocks which correspond closely to syllables Finally, these blocks are laid out sequentially to represent words; The script used to write Korean in which one syllabic letter consists of a consonant and a vowel, and sometimes one or more final consonant elements

Turkish - English

hangul

Pronunciation

[ 'hän-"gül ] (noun.) 1946. From Korean 한글 (hangeul), “Korean script” < Archaic Korean 한글 (hangeul) “great script”.

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