You can’t have a syllable block starting with a vowel for some reason so instead you have to put the silent character ieung (ㅇ) before the vowel. However things are a little different for characters that start with vowels. These can be either just one vowel or a vowel followed by a consonant. The next type of syllable you’ll encounter in Korean is a syllable that begins with a vowel. Sometimes you write the characters in a vertical stack of three Hangul letters and some times you write two beside each other with the third one below them.Īs you get more familiar with writing the Korean alphabet you’ll start to get a feel for how the letters fit together properly. You’ll also notice that these characters are read from left to right and top to bottom. Many Hangul consonants have a different sound if they’re at the start of a syllable and a different sound at the end of a syllable. When writing these 3 character syllables you have to remember to pay attention to the sounds of the consonants. The vowels are just named after the sounds they make like “ah” for the vowelㅏ. The character ㄱ for example is the shape your toungue takes when you make a “g” sound.Įach consonant has its own name. Consonants are based on the shape your mouth makes when you pronounce them while vowels are made from easy to identify horizontal or vertical lines. The shape of each letter is designed after the features of the sounds they represent. The most interesting feature of the Korean Alphabet is the design of the letters. Han (한) means great and Geul (글) means script. The name of the Korean alphabet, Hangul (한글) means great script in Korean. “Han” for example isn’t written as “ㅎㅏㄴ” it’s written as “한” Unlike English however the letters are combined into blocks of usually 2 to 3 characters for each syllable. There are some obsolete characters and combination characters as well but the main alphabet is 40 letters. The Korean alphabet is made up of 19 consonant letters and 21 vowel characters for a total of 40 main letters. The alphabet was created in the year 1443 in the Joseon Dynasty. Hangul is the official alphabet of the Korean language and it’s used in both South and North Korea.
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