Korean/Words/Romanization

Romanization

ㅎㅏㄴㄱㅡㄹ

ㅎ	ㅏ	ㄴ	ㄱ	ㅡ	ㄹ
h	a	n	g	eu	l

Hangul

Koreans may believe that Hangul is ideal. But it is quite defective in fact. Above all, long and short vowels are unsaid.

• Maybe not best
  • No difference from long and short vowels.

한글 과 한국

Vowels	short	long
한글	hangeul	harngeul
한국	hangug	harngug

Arae-a

ː Arae-a (아래아)

The Revised Romanization of Korean (RR) does little justice to old Korean language.

The Roman /v/ shall romanize the uniquely outlawed vowel /ㆍ/, namely 아래아 (arae-a). Accordingly, the hangul for hvi ("sun"), for example, may be put 희 (in italic), 희 (in bold face), 희 (underlined), 희 (stroked), or even 히 (stroked). The basical ㅎ should be self-evident. 

Readability

ㄱ 기 깃 ㄲ 끼 낏 ㄴ 니 닛 ㄷ 디 딧 ㄸ 띠 띳 ㄹ 리 릿 ㅁ 미 밋 ㅂ 비 빗 ㅃ 삐 삣 ㅅ 시 싯 ㅆ 씨 씻 ㅇ 이 잇 ㅈ 지 짓 ㅊ 치 칫 ㅋ 키 킷 ㅌ 티 팃 ㅍ 피 핏 ㅎ 히 힛

Short and long vowels

Hangul	Long vowel	Short vowel
자기	(jagi) self	(jargi) magnetism
저자	(jeja) market	(jerja) author
종	(jong) bell	(jorng) serf
중	(jung) middle	(jurng) monk
징	(jing) hobnail	(jirng) gong

Homonyms

English planer and planar are homonyms.

See also

• Critical Pedagogy Case Studies