Summary of Korean Romanization

Although I'm somewhat opposed to Romanization, as it tends to delay people's learning of the Korean alphabet, there has been a demand from people who have used this site for a summary page that they can print out. Here it is. But don't use it! <grin>

In the consonant table, a consonant with an apostrophe following it is pronounced “aspirated”, with a puff of air after it. A double consonant is “tense” or glottalized.

In the vowel table, the letter e is short (as in ten), i is pronounced as in elite (an “ee” sound), and u is a long u as pronounced like the oo in room.

ConsonantRomanized
ㄱ k
ㄲ kk
ㄴ n
ㄷ t
ㄸ tt
ㄹ r
ㅁ m
ㅂ p
ㅃ pp
ㅅ s
ㅆ ss
ㅇ silent at start of syll.
ng at end of syll.
ㅈ ch
ㅉ jj
ㅊ ch'
ㅋ k'
ㅌ t'
ㅍ p'
ㅎ h

VowelRomanized
Simple vowels
ㅏ a
ㅐ ae
ㅓ eo
ㅔ e
ㅗ o
ㅜ u
ㅡ eu
ㅣ i
“y” vowels
ㅑ ya
ㅒ yae
ㅕ yeo
ㅖ ye
ㅛ yo
ㅠ yu
Diphthongs
ㅘ wa
ㅙ wae
ㅚ oe
ㅝ weo
ㅞ we
ㅟ wi
ㅢ eui

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