In this lesson, you’ll learn ‘How to write Korean alphabet’ and ‘How to read Korean words’
How to write Korean alphabet
Let’s study Korean Consonants first.
Consonant Chart
The chart above doesn’t have the double consonant we learned like ㄲ, ㄸ, ㅃ, ㅆ, ㅉ.
I intentionally didn’t add double consonants because one you can write single consonants, you can also write double consonants. – For example If you can write ‘ㅂ’, you just can write ‘ㅂ’ twice to make ‘ㅃ’.
Let’s study basic word that start with each consonant to get familiar with consonants
Consonant | Word | Pronunciation | In English |
---|---|---|---|
ㄱ | 가방(gabang) 🎒 | Bag | |
ㄴ | 나비(gabang) 🦋 | Butterfly | |
ㄷ | 다리(dali) 🦵 | Legs | |
ㄹ | 라면(lamyeon) 🍜 | Ramen | |
ㅁ | 모자(moja) 👒 | Hat | |
ㅂ | 바지(baji) 👖 | Pants | |
ㅅ | 사자(saja) 🦁 | Lion | |
ㅇ | 아기(agi) 👶 | Baby | |
ㅈ | 지갑(jigab) 👛 | Wallet | |
ㅊ | 책(chaeg) 📗 | Book | |
ㅋ | 코(ko) 👃 | Nose | |
ㅌ | 태양(taeyang) ☀️ | Sun | |
ㅍ | 파랑(palang) 🔵 | blue | |
ㅎ | 하마(hama) 🦛 | Hippo |
Vowel Chart
As you may have already noticed, vowels have three rules.
Vowels are created by these two rules.
- One or two vertical lines
- a horizontal line
you won’t find any vowels that break the above rules.