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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
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
Korean capitalisation usage
Use of capitalisation
This section does not apply to Korean.
Solutions for Korean
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