Phrase guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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name
A book published in Korea in the 15th century, outlining the phonetic script in which Korean is now usually written.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
The phonetic script in which Korean is written, now usually called hangul.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical, uncountable
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History
Borrowed from Korean 훈민정음(訓民正音) (Hunminjeong'eum), literally "correct sounds to educate the people".
Across languages
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