Learn Korean 한글

1.4 Combining the Consonants and Vowels

•How to combine consonant with vowel symbol•

The basic unit of of a Korean letter is a syllable. In other words, a complete Korean written letter must have least one consonant and a vowel symbol. The combinations of the vowels and consonants symbols are fivefold.

~One Vowel Sound~

A syllable consist of only one vowel sound (e.g.,like english"a") although
the letter pronunciation is consisted of only vowel pronunciation like "a"
(without any spoken consonants), you still need to start the syllable with a consonant symbol to make a letter complete. For this purpose, you use a Korean consonant "ㅇ".

The use of the "ㅇ" symbol special in that it is used as zero-value consonant when it appears before a vowel. It functions as a place holder in a word-initial position, so that the letter "a"should be written in Korean as "아" (not "ㅏ"). Let us take another example.

Writing a letter for the sound "yo" should look like "요" not " ㅛ". Again, although the letter begins with the vowel pronunciation "yo" (without any spoken consonant), you still have start to zero-value consonant "ㅇ"to make it a complete letter, as in "요"

~consonant + vowel~

Vowel: ㅏ(a) -- ㄱ + ㅏ= 가 (ga)
ㄴ + ㅏ= 나 (na) ㄷ+ㅏ=다(da)

Vowel: ㅗ(o) -- ㄱ+ㅗ= 고(go)
ㄴ+ㅗ=노 (no) ㄷ+ㅗ=도(do)

~consonant+Vowel+ consonant~

Consonant: ㄴ(n)-- ㄱ+ㅏ+ㄴ=간(gan)
ㄴ+ㅏ+ㄴ=난(nan) ㄷ+ㅏ+ㄴ=단(dan)

Consonant: ㅁ(m)-- ㄱ+ㅗ+ㅁ=곰(gom)
ㄴ+ㅗ+ㅁ=놈(nom) ㄷ+ㅗ+ㅁ=돔(dom)

Consonant: ㅇ(ng)-- ㄱ+ㅣ+ㅇ=깅(ging)
ㄴ+ㅣ+ㅇ=닝(ning) ㄷ+ㅣ+ㅇ=딩(ding)

As the above examples clearly show, Han-geul with only 5 consonants and 3 vowels, is capableof expressing virtually any sound
The Korean Language has a well-developed and expansive vocabulary, and therefore, it is very difficult to express fully in foreign letter

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KARAGDAGANG KAALAMAN

ㄲ=kk
ㄸ=tt
ㅃ=pp
ㅆ= ss
ㅉ=jj

ㄲ(name: d-giyeok(쌍 기역))=kk [as in skill,tense]
ㄸ(name: d-digeut(쌍디긋))=tt [as in steam,tense)
ㅃ(name: d-bieup(쌍비읍))=pp[as in speak,tense]
ㅆ(name: d-siot(쌍 시읏))=ss[as in sea)
ㅉ(name: d-jieut(씽지읏))=jj [as in midget,tense)