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Hunminjeongeum Haerye (lit. "Explanations and Examples of the Correct/Proper Sounds for the Instruction of the People"), also called the Haerye Edition of Hunminjeongeum or simply The Haerye, is a commentary on the Hunminjeongeum, the original promulgation of hangul
Hangul

Hangul is the native alphabet of the Korean language, as distinguished from the logogram Sino-Korean vocabulary hanja system. It was created in the mid-fifteenth century, and is now the official writing system of both North Korea and South Korea, being co-official in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture of China....
.

It was written by scholars from the Jiphyeonjeon (Hall of Worthies), commissioned by King Sejong the Great
Sejong the Great of Joseon

Sejong the Great was the fourth king of the Joseon Dynasty of Korea. He is best remembered for creating the Korean alphabet hangul, despite strong opposition from the scholars educated in hanja ....
. In addition to an introduction by Sejong (excerpted from the beginning of Hunminjeongeum) and a colophon by the scholar Jeong Inji
Jeong Inji

Jeong Inji was a Korean Neo-Confucian scholar and government minister. During the reign of Sejong the Great, he was vice-minister of education....
, it contains the following chapters:

  1. "An Explanation of the Design of the Letters"
  2. "An Explanation of the Initials"
  3. "An Explanation of the Medials"
  4. "An Explanation of the Finals"
  5. "An Explanation of the Combination of the Letters"
  6. "Examples of the Uses of the Letters"


See jamo
Hangul

Hangul is the native alphabet of the Korean language, as distinguished from the logogram Sino-Korean vocabulary hanja system. It was created in the mid-fifteenth century, and is now the official writing system of both North Korea and South Korea, being co-official in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture of China....
 for an excerpt of the letter design explanations from chapters 2 through 4.

The original publication is 65 pages of hanja
Hanja

Hanja is the Korean language name for Chinese characters. More specifically, it refers to those Chinese characters borrowed from Chinese language and incorporated into the Korean language with Korean pronunciation....
 in regular script
Regular script

Kaiti redirects here. For the suburb of Gisborne, New Zealand, see Kaiti, New Zealand.The regular script or standard script, or in Chinese language kaishu and Japanese language kaisho, also commonly known as standard regular , is the newest of the Chinese calligraphy styles , hence most common in modern wr...
, except where hangul are mentioned and illustrated.






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Hunminjeongeum Haerye (lit. "Explanations and Examples of the Correct/Proper Sounds for the Instruction of the People"), also called the Haerye Edition of Hunminjeongeum or simply The Haerye, is a commentary on the Hunminjeongeum, the original promulgation of hangul
Hangul

Hangul is the native alphabet of the Korean language, as distinguished from the logogram Sino-Korean vocabulary hanja system. It was created in the mid-fifteenth century, and is now the official writing system of both North Korea and South Korea, being co-official in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture of China....
.

It was written by scholars from the Jiphyeonjeon (Hall of Worthies), commissioned by King Sejong the Great
Sejong the Great of Joseon

Sejong the Great was the fourth king of the Joseon Dynasty of Korea. He is best remembered for creating the Korean alphabet hangul, despite strong opposition from the scholars educated in hanja ....
. In addition to an introduction by Sejong (excerpted from the beginning of Hunminjeongeum) and a colophon by the scholar Jeong Inji
Jeong Inji

Jeong Inji was a Korean Neo-Confucian scholar and government minister. During the reign of Sejong the Great, he was vice-minister of education....
, it contains the following chapters:

  1. "An Explanation of the Design of the Letters"
  2. "An Explanation of the Initials"
  3. "An Explanation of the Medials"
  4. "An Explanation of the Finals"
  5. "An Explanation of the Combination of the Letters"
  6. "Examples of the Uses of the Letters"


See jamo
Hangul

Hangul is the native alphabet of the Korean language, as distinguished from the logogram Sino-Korean vocabulary hanja system. It was created in the mid-fifteenth century, and is now the official writing system of both North Korea and South Korea, being co-official in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture of China....
 for an excerpt of the letter design explanations from chapters 2 through 4.

The original publication is 65 pages of hanja
Hanja

Hanja is the Korean language name for Chinese characters. More specifically, it refers to those Chinese characters borrowed from Chinese language and incorporated into the Korean language with Korean pronunciation....
 in regular script
Regular script

Kaiti redirects here. For the suburb of Gisborne, New Zealand, see Kaiti, New Zealand.The regular script or standard script, or in Chinese language kaishu and Japanese language kaisho, also commonly known as standard regular , is the newest of the Chinese calligraphy styles , hence most common in modern wr...
, except where hangul are mentioned and illustrated. Only one original copy exists, which was made public in 1940 by Jeon Hyeongpil, an antique collector who acquired it from Lee Hangeol (1880-1950), whose family had possessed it for generations.

Now kept in the Kansong Art Museum (?? ???; ?????), it is South Korea
South Korea

South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea , ), often referred to as Korea and the "names of Korea#Revival of the names", is a Semi-presidential system republic in East Asia, located in the southern half of the Korean Peninsula....
n National Treasure number 70 and has been a UNESCO
UNESCO

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations established on 16 November 1945....
 Memory of the World Register since October 1997.

See also

  • List of Korea-related topics
    List of Korea-related topics

    This is a list of articles on Korea-related people, places, things, and concepts. For help on how to use this list, see the #Introduction below....
  • Sejong Professor of Korean History Emeritus at Columbia University, Gari Ledyard
    Gari Ledyard

    Gari Keith Ledyard is Sejong Professor of Korean History Emeritus at Columbia University. He is best known for his work on the history of the hangul alphabet....
     traces five consonants credited in the manuscript to the Gu Seal Script of the Mongol Yuan dynasty
    Yuan Dynasty

    The Yuan Dynasty , or Great Yuan Empire was both the continuation of the Mongol Empire and the Mongol founded historical state in Mongolia and China, lasting officially from 1271 to 1368....
     to similar sounding Indoeuropean consonants linking the Greek, Latin and Syriac alphabets of the West to the Phagspa/Tibetan scripts of the East


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    German language

    German is a West Germanic languages, thus related to and classified alongside English language and Dutch language. It is one of the world's world language and the most widely spoken mother tongue in the European Union....