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Read more about Hangul, it was never designed to look like Chinese. It has many interesting design decisions which are unique and not found in any other script.
by oehtXRwMkIs 7y ago
Read more about Hangul, it was never designed to look like Chinese. It has many interesting design decisions which are unique and not found in any other script.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hangul https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hangul
Its history will also tell you what it meant for Chinese characters to be adopted by China's neighbors.
- bmn__ 7y ago> it was never designed to look like Chinese Not so quick, there are design decisions that deliberately carry over certain fundamental features from Chinese: 1. The script is not linear at its unit of writing, but fills a square with its base components from left to right, top to bottom (「한글」, not 「ㅎㅏㄴㄱㅡㄹ」; analogue 「韓字」, not 「十早韋宀子」). 2. One unit represents precisely one syllable. 3. Vertical writing retains the orientation of units (not rotating 90°).
- jdmichal 7y ago(1) and (3) also apply to Egyptian hieroglyphics... They're pretty generic design decisions for languages with composing characters. And (2) is just a syllabary, which is certainly not unique. Any composed syllabary that is meant to read left-to-right, top-to-bottom will likely meet (1) and (2).