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Hangeul

Hangeul

See also: hangeul and han-geul

English

Alternative forms

hangeul, hangul, Hangul

Noun

Hangeul ‎(uncountable)

한글 ㅎ=h ㅏ=a ㄴ=n ㄱ=g ㅡ=eu ㄹ=l

The word 'hangeul' in hangeul

The phonetic alphabet used to write the Korean language.

Usage notes

The spelling hangeul is from the Korean spelling in the 2000 South Korean Revised transcription. “Hangul” derives from the older McCune-Reischauer transcription “hangŭl” written without the diacritics: it is the more common English spelling. Within the English Wiktionary, “hangeul” is preferred.

Synonyms

Chosongul, chosongul, Joseongeul, joseongeul (North Korea)

See also

hanja
jamo

Translations

Korean phonetic script

Arabic: هَانْغُول m ‎(hangūl), هَانْغُول m ‎(hanḡūl)
Armenian: հանգուլ ‎(hangul)
Belarusian: хангы́ль m ‎(xanhýlʹ)
Bulgarian: хангъ̀л m ‎(hangǎ̀l)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 諺文 (zh), 谚文 (zh) ‎(yànwén), 朝鮮字母 (zh), 朝鲜字母 (zh) ‎(Cháoxiǎn zìmǔ), 韓字, 韩字 ‎(hánzì), 韓文 (zh), 韩文 (zh) ‎(Hánwén)
Czech: hangul m
French: hangeul (fr) m
Georgian: ჰანგული ‎(hanguli)
German: Hangeul (de) n, Hangul n
Hebrew: הנגול
Hindi: हंगुल ‎(haṅgul)
Japanese: ハングル (ja) ‎(hanguru), 朝鮮文字 ‎(ちょうせんもじ, Chōsen moji), 諺文 (ja) ‎(おんもん, onmon, げんぶん, genbun)

Korean: 한글 (ko) ‎(han-geul) (South Korea), 조선글 (ko) ‎(joseon-geul) (North Korea), 언문 (ko) ‎(eonmun) (諺文 (ko))
Polish: hangyl (pl) m
Portuguese: hangul m
Russian: хангы́ль (ru) m ‎(xangýlʹ), чосонгы́ль m ‎(čosongýlʹ) (North Korea)
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: хангул m

Roman: hangul m
Sinhalese: හංගුල් ‎(haṁgul)
Spanish: hangul m
Tajik: ҳангул ‎(hangul)
Turkish: hangıl
Ukrainian: ханги́ль m ‎(xanhýlʹ), ханґи́ль m ‎(xangýlʹ)

hangeul

hangeul

See also: Hangeul and han-geul

English

Noun

hangeul ‎(uncountable)

Alternative letter-case form of Hangeul

Translations

Hangeul — see Hangeul

French

Un hangeul.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /an.ɡœl/

Noun

hangeul m ‎(uncountable)

Hangeul (Korean phonetic script)