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interesting. i knew about the letters shapes resembling tongue/mouth positions but not that blocks represented morphemes, not just syllables.
by clairity 12y ago
interesting. i knew about the letters shapes resembling tongue/mouth positions but not that blocks represented morphemes, not just syllables.
- sho_hn 12y agoThis is partly because while Korean and Chinese are distinct languages, a large part of the Korean vocabulary consists of imported Chinese stems, and Chinese is heavily monosyllabic. As such, a lot of Hangul blocks are close homophones to the sound values of Han characters.