LOWKEY

Hangul

Blocks, not beads

English strings letters left to right. Korean builds a square.

A Korean syllable is a tile: a starter consonant, a vowel, and sometimes a closer (받침). 한 is ㅎ + ㅏ + ㄴ sitting in one square, not three Latin letters in a row.

That is why 서울 looks short and sounds like two beats: 서 / 울. Train your eye to find the squares first, then sound them.

You do not need every letter today. You need to stop treating Hangul like a decoration on a K-pop thumbnail.

Say these

  • 한글

    hangeul

    Hangul — the Korean script

  • 서울

    seoul

    Seoul

  • 커피

    keopi

    coffee (loanword, still a block)

Check

  1. How many syllable blocks in 서울?

  2. 한글 is built as