Hangul

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Hangul is the native alphabetic writing system of the Korean language, renowned for its scientific design and ease of learning.

All labels observed (9)

Label Occurrences
Hangul canonical 214
Hangeul 2
Chosŏn'gŭl 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Korean script
alphabet
featural alphabet
writing system
alsoKnownAs Hangul
surface form: Chosŏn'gŭl

Hangul
surface form: Hangeul

Joseongeul
commemoratedOn Hangul Day
countryOfOrigin Korean Peninsula
surface form: Korea
createdBy Joseon court scholars
creator Sejong the Great
dateOfCreation 1443
dateOfProclamation 1446
developedIn Joseon
surface form: Joseon dynasty
encodingStandard Unicode
graphemicUnit jamo
HangulDayObservedIn North Korea
South Korea
hasJamoType choseong (initial consonant)
jongseong (final consonant)
jungseong (medial vowel)
influenced Korean Braille
influencedBy phonological structure of Korean
ISO15924Code Hang
ISO15924Number 286
nativeLanguageOf Korean
surface form: Korean language
numberOfBasicConsonants 14
numberOfBasicVowels 10
officialScriptOf North Korea
South Korea
Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture
originalName Hunminjeongeum
recognizedFor ease of learning
phonemic transparency
scientific design
scriptType alphabetic
featural
syllableStructure block-like syllable clusters
UnicodeBlock Hangul Compatibility Jamo
Hangul self-linksurface differs
surface form: Hangul Jamo

Hangul Jamo Extended-A
Hangul Jamo Extended-B
Hangul self-linksurface differs
surface form: Hangul Syllables
usedIn Koreans
surface form: Korean diaspora communities

North Korea
South Korea
writingDirection left-to-right
top-to-bottom
writingSystemFor Korean
surface form: Korean language

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

East Asia hasWritingSystem Hangul
South Korea writingSystem Hangul
North Korea writingSystem Hangul
Hangul alsoKnownAs Hangul
this entity surface form: Hangeul
Hangul alsoKnownAs Hangul
this entity surface form: Chosŏn'gŭl
Hangul UnicodeBlock Hangul self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Hangul Syllables
Hangul UnicodeBlock Hangul self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Hangul Jamo
Daejeon writingSystem Hangul
Saha District usesScript Hangul
Gwangju writingSystem Hangul
KORMARC supportsScript Hangul
Pyeongtaek writingSystem Hangul
Juché script Hangul
subject surface form: Juche
Korean writingSystem Hangul
Jung hasScript Hangul
Wikipedia puzzle globe hasWritingSystem Hangul
this entity surface form: Korean Hangul
Koreans writingSystem Hangul
Koreans traditionalScript Hangul
Jinju, South Korea writingSystem Hangul
subject surface form: Jinju
Joseon writingSystem Hangul
Joseon createdScript Hangul
Hangul Day alsoKnownAs Hangul
this entity surface form: Hangulnal
Hangul Day relatedTo Hangul
Hangul Day scriptOfName Hangul
Joseongeul alternativeName Hangul
Joseongeul alternativeName Hangul
this entity surface form: Hangeul
Joseongeul nativeName Hangul
this entity surface form: 조선글
Joseongeul writingSystemFamily Hangul
this entity surface form: Korean scripts
samgyetang writingSystem Hangul
Hanja coexistsWith Hangul
Kim script Hangul
Sojin writingSystem Hangul