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Korean alphabet and characters

Here are some of Korean characters. If your document is not showing correctly, then first check that the encoding for that program and font supports Korean.

Korean writing system, known as Hangul, was created in 1444. It is a phonetic system, where letters represent various sounds. The letters are combined into syllabic blocks, which makes it look like an ideographic system (just like Chinese).

Vowels

Korean alphabet (vowels)

Consonants

Korean grammar rules

Nouns

Korean is an agglutinative language.

Nouns and pronouns both take case clitics and are not inflected. Gender is not marked.

Verbs

Korean formatting rules

Date formats

Short date format	yyyy-m-d
	e.g. 2016-3-23
Long date format	YYYY 년 M 월 D 일
	e.g. 2016 년 3 월 17 일

Numbers and measurements

Decimal separator	. (period)
	e.g. 11.50
Thousand separator	, (comma)
	e.g. 2,000, not 2 000
Five and more digit numbers format	split into groups of three from the right using non-breaking space
	e.g. 20 000, not 20000
Measurement units	non-breaking space
	e.g. 1 cm, not 1cm 10%, not 10 %
Percentage	‘percentage‘ is read and written as ‘백분율‘, while the percent sign (%) is used as ‘퍼센트‘ or as it is.
Korean currency name	원 (won)
Currency symbol	￦ or KRW
Currency symbol position	￦ is located before the number without a space, 원 is located after the number and is preceded by a space
	e.g. 7,520.02 원 or ￦7,520.02

Korean capitalisation usage

Use of capitalisation

This section does not apply to Korean.

Solutions for Korean

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