Idu

E808102

Idu was a historic Korean writing system that used adapted Chinese characters to represent Korean language elements for administrative and literary purposes.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf historic Korean writing system
logographic writing system
script for Korean language
basedOn Classical Chinese NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin Korea NERFINISHED
declineCause adoption of Hangul
developed between 6th and 7th centuries
developedFor administrative documents
literary purposes
representation of Korean grammatical elements
distinctFrom Hangul NERFINISHED
pure Classical Chinese writing in Korea
encodes Korean particles
Korean syntactic markers
Korean verb endings
floruit Goryeo period
historicalPeriod Goryeo dynasty NERFINISHED
Three Kingdoms of Korea NERFINISHED
early Joseon dynasty NERFINISHED
influenced later Korean annotation systems
influencedBy Chinese writing
languageContext diglossia with Classical Chinese
notationPrinciple borrowed characters for meaning
borrowed characters for sound
partOf Korean mixed-script tradition
preservedIn Buddhist texts
epigraphic inscriptions
legal and administrative records
primaryUsers Korean scholar-officials
local administrators
relatedTo Gugyeol NERFINISHED
Hyangchal NERFINISHED
scriptDirection horizontal, left-to-right
vertical, top-to-bottom
scriptFamily CJK writing systems
status obsolete
usedFor annotating Chinese texts with Korean readings
personal correspondence
recording local administrative records
recording official documents
writing Korean poetry
usedIn Korea NERFINISHED
uses adapted Chinese characters
phonetic values of Chinese characters
semantic values of Chinese characters
usesWritingSystem Chinese characters
writingSystemFor Korean language
writingSystemType logographic-phonetic mixed system

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