Korean Alphabet 한국어

ㄱㄴㄷㅁㄹㅂㅅ ㅇㅈㅊㅋㅌㅍㅎ

Consonant 자음 Final Consonant 받침 (that’s a whole subject in itself)

ㅏㅑㅓㅕㅗㅛㅜㅠㅡㅣ

Vowels

Calligraphy 서예 can be very different than penmanship as you raise the ink brush off the paper after every stroke to create proper thickness. Where penmanship is what we will practice with a pen or pencil, to write a note say for grocery shopping or letter to friend. Disciplines not same.

If the first goal is writing a single letter, remember Left to right. Top to down. You can also think ahead on how it would be used in a box.

The second goal is to use your box properly. To do this, one must learn the first goal, how to properly write a letter alone. Your next level type goal, written by a computer here

안녕하세요

Notice the lower part of the N scoots a little underneath the A. 안

You do | first to set the left most edge and then _ second for this syllable we make the _ scoot a little longer to form a nice box.

Therefore writing N would be | first, then _ to create ㄴ. This might seem tedious and who cares when writing a single letter alone, maybe as a person of free will I want to write _ then |. The reason you want to learn first goal properly, is life will be easier when you get to second goal.

Yeh, like way too many things, sometimes rules do not make sense and seem arbitrary until you get the next level of use and then you see how they make everything and everyone work together better. Thanks for the comment on society why rules matter.

An H alone is made top to down. Small line centered. Typical width line. Circle. You can see in a box, if you made line and circle first, or middle down, then forgetting to leave enough space to jam in the small line. Which is why you learned to make H top down when it was alone. In the video, I would add more letters next, in this we assume syllable started with N followed by H.

G ㄱ ㄱ ㄱ ㄱ ㄱ ㄱ ㄱ

Korean has the same joke as the American English, did the singy songy come first or the order of the alphabet come first. Ha ha, 2’nd grade joke. The order of constants isㄱㄴㄷㅁㄹㅂㅅㅇㅈㅊㅋㅌㅍㅎ. For the singy songy, give a vowel to use, easier to sing. 가 나 다. The singy songy for Korean seems like it’s about Canada . Your first task in thinking natively, than English to translate, is learn the Korean order.

Keyboard layout 101 on my computer does not always match my written penmanship. I guess a computer has the dexterity to write ㅈㅊ different, where I need something a little more obvious they are different letters and easy to write with a pen.

Okay, let’s do the rest of the consonants after G.

ㄱㄴㄷㅁㄹㅂㅅ ㅇㅈㅊㅋㅌㅍㅎ

N ㄴㄴㄴ

ㄴㄴㄴㄴ


D ㄷㄷㄷ

L or RL ㄹㄹㄹㄹ

Notice LEFT to RIGHT always, never LEFT to RIGHT

M ㅁㅁㅁ

ㅁㅁㅁㅁ

The remaining order is ㅂㅅㅇㅈㅊㅋㅌㅍㅎ. I want to compare ㅂ and ㅍ for a second as ㅂ has two ways. ㅍ is as expected, top line, two top to down lines, bottom line. Some people make the ㅂ with two top to down lines, followed by middle line and bottom line. Technically, to keep right to left exactly, one might do left line top to down line, then middle and bottom, then right line top to down line, more in keeping with right to left. Also, on the ㅇ orㅎ, if you are right handed you probably been doing circles counter clockwise for years, technically it is counter clockwise in 한국어, probably okay either way, as it is a perfect circle.

Bㅂㅂㅂ

Korean name for letter

ㄱ (기역, giyeok) ㄴ (니은, nieun) ㄷ (디귿, digeut) ㄹ (리을, rieul) ㅁ (미음, mieum) ㅂ (비읍, bieup) ㅅ (시읏, sieut) ㅇ (이응, ieung) ㅈ (지읏, jieut) ㅊ (치읓, chieut) ㅋ (키읔, kieuk) ㅌ (티읕, tieut) ㅍ (피읖, pieup) ㅎ (히읗, hieuh)

Vowel’s Order

ㅏㅑ ㅓ ㅕ ㅗㅛ ㅜㅠ ㅡㅣ

AH YAH UH YUH O YO U YU EU EE

AH ㅏ 1Down line, 2Left line

YAH ㅑ 1Down, 2Top, 3Next

UH ㅓ1Down, 2LeftToRight

YUH ㅕ1Down, 2Top, 3Next

See chart –>