"ㅎ" meaning in Korean

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Character

Forms: h [romanization]
Etymology: The Hunmin Jeongeum Haerye, the treatise introducing the principles behind the Korean alphabet written by its inventor King Sejong in 1446, explains that this glyph was derived by adding a stroke to ㆆ (Yale: q, Middle Korean letter denoting the glottal stop) to represent aspiration. Etymology templates: {{m|okm|ㆆ|tr=-}} ㆆ, {{okm-inline|ㆆ|q|5=Middle Korean letter denoting the glottal stop}} ㆆ (Yale: q, Middle Korean letter denoting the glottal stop) Head templates: {{ko-pos|letter}} ㅎ • (h)
  1. 히읗 (hieut), a jamo (letter) of Hangul, the Korean alphabet. Wikipedia link: Sejong of Joseon Tags: letter

Download JSON data for ㅎ meaning in Korean (1.7kB)

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Korean dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-20 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (1d5a7d1 and 304864d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

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