훈민정음

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Etymology

Sino-Korean word from 訓 (“to teach”) + 民 (“the people”) + 正 (“right”) + 音 (“sound”)

Pronunciation

  • (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA(key):
  • Phonetic hangul:
    • Though still prescribed in Standard Korean, most speakers in both Koreas no longer distinguish vowel length.
Romanizations
Revised Romanization?hunminjeong'eum
Revised Romanization (translit.)?hunminjeong'eum
McCune–Reischauer?hunminjŏngŭm
Yale Romanization?hwūnmin.cengum

Proper noun

훈민정음 • (Hunminjeong'eum) (hanja 訓民正音)

  1. Hunmin Jeongeum (the book introducing the Korean script)

Noun

훈민정음 • (hunminjeong'eum) (hanja 訓民正音)

  1. (higher register or historical) hangul, the Korean script, especially in its Middle Korean form
    Synonyms: 한글 (han'geul), 조선글 (joseon'geul); see also Thesaurus:한글
  2. a Korean drinking game where one must drink whenever one uses a 외래어(外來語) (oeraeeo), i.e. a non-native and non-Sino-Korean loanword such as from English
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