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Hangeul is not an alphabet. It's an alphabetic syllabary. ㄱ is one character but it needs to be composed into a final glyph like 각, which require 2+ characters.
by munmaek 7y ago
Hangeul is not an alphabet. It's an alphabetic syllabary. ㄱ is one character but it needs to be composed into a final glyph like 각, which require 2+ characters. 가, 각, 갉. 뷁.
Kanji (not to be confused with Hiragana or Katakana) are different because the characters are already composed.
- Izkata 7y agoSee my other reply [0]; as far as I can tell, the typing experience is identical. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21390039 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21390039
- munmaek 7y agoYeah I had a brain-fart earlier. I totally forgot about that. Typing hangeul is basically the same except there's no need to possibly choose different hanja/kanji. ...unless you press the hanja key after the glyph is typed but before moving onto the next glyph. (Usually F9 or F10, iirc Windows IME defaults to ctrl+space).