''Hangeul matchumbeop(한글맞춤법)'' refers to the overall rules of writing the
Korean language with
Hangul. The current
orthography was issued and established by
Korean Ministry of Culture in 1998. The first of it is Hunminjungeum(훈민정음). In everyday conversation, 한글 맞춤법 is referred to as 맞춤법.
Korean orthography rule (한글 맞춤법) consists of six chapters, along with appendix.
* Chapter 1: 총칙 (General Rule)
* Chapter 2: 자모 (
Consonants and
Vowels)
* Chapter 3: 소리에 관한 것 (About Sounds)
** Section 1, Chapter 3: 된소리 (doen-so-ri)
** Section 2, Chapter 3: 구개음화 (Gu-gae-eum-hwa)
** Section 3, Chapter 3: ㄷ 받침소리 (Consonant 'ㄷ' coming at the lower part of a
syllable
A syllable is a unit of organization for a sequence of Phone (phonetics), speech sounds typically made up of a syllable nucleus (most often a vowel) with optional initial and final margins (typically, consonants). Syllables are often considered t ...
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** Section 4, Chapter 3: 모음 (Vowels)
** Section 5, Chapter 3: 두음법칙 (Law of Initial Sound of a Syllable)
** Section 6, Chapter 3: 겹쳐 나는 소리 (Sounds Pronounced When Similar
Phoneme
In phonology and linguistics, a phoneme () is a unit of sound that can distinguish one word from another in a particular language.
For example, in most dialects of English, with the notable exception of the West Midlands and the north-west ...
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* Chapter 4: 형태에 관한 것 (About Forms)
** Section 1, Chapter 4: 체언과 조사 (Che-eon and Josa)
** Section 2, Chapter 4: 어간과 어미 (
Stem and
Ending
End, END, Ending, or variation, may refer to:
End
*In mathematics:
**End (category theory)
**End (topology)
**End (graph theory)
** End (group theory) (a subcase of the previous)
** End (endomorphism)
*In sports and games
**End (gridiron football ...
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Verbs and
Adjective
In linguistics, an adjective ( abbreviated ) is a word that generally modifies a noun or noun phrase or describes its referent. Its semantic role is to change information given by the noun.
Traditionally, adjectives were considered one of the ma ...
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** Section 3, Chapter 4: 접미사가 붙어서 된 말 (Words Formed by
Suffix is Attached to Other Words)
* Chapter 5: 띄어쓰기 (Spacing Between Words)
** Section 1, Chapter 5: 조사 (josa)
** Section 2, Chapter 5: 의존명사, 단위를 나타내는 명사 및 열거하는 말 등 (Bounding
Nouns, Nouns *Expressing Units, Enumerating Words, Etc.)
** Section 3, Chapter 5: 보조용언 (
Auxiliary verb
An auxiliary verb ( abbreviated ) is a verb that adds functional or grammatical meaning to the clause in which it occurs, so as to express tense, aspect, modality, voice, emphasis, etc. Auxiliary verbs usually accompany an infinitive verb or a p ...
s and Adjectives)
** Section 4, Chapter 5: 고유명사 및 전문용어 (
Proper Noun
A proper noun is a noun that identifies a single entity and is used to refer to that entity (''Africa'', ''Jupiter'', ''Sarah'', ''Microsoft)'' as distinguished from a common noun, which is a noun that refers to a class of entities (''continent, ...
s and
Terminology)
* Chapter 6: 그 밖의 것 (Anything Else)
* Appendix: 문장부호 (
Punctuation
Punctuation (or sometimes interpunction) is the use of spacing, conventional signs (called punctuation marks), and certain typographical devices as aids to the understanding and correct reading of written text, whether read silently or aloud. An ...
Marks)
External links
*
Orthography guidelines issued by the Korean Ministry of Culture in 1988 at the Korean Wikisource
Orthography guidelines issued by the Korean Ministry of Culture in 1988at ko.wiktionary.org (online version, in Korean)
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