Korean writing systems

The Korean alphabet is the modern writing system for the Korean language. It has gone by a variety of names, such as ' in North Korea, Hangul internationally, and ' in South Korea. The script's original name was ''''''.

Hanja (; ), alternatively spelled Hancha, are Chinese characters used to write the Korean language. After characters were introduced to Korea to write Literary Chinese, they were adapted to write Korean as early as the Gojoseon period.

conventional order in which CJKV characters should be written

a Korean language writing system

writing conventions

typographic mark used in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean writing

North Korean orthography of the Korean language, published in 1948 and in force until 1954; introduced six additional Hangul letters

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'''Hyangch'al''' () is an archaic writing system of Korea and was used to transcribe the Korean language in Chinese characters. Using the hyangch'al system, Chinese characters were given a Korean reading based on the syllable associated with the character. The hyangch'al writing system is often classified as a subgroup of the Idu script.

writing system of the Korean language that uses characters representing words from syllabic components (Hangul) along with traditional Chinese ideographic characters

Kugyŏl (also Romanized as gugyeol or kwukyel, among others) is a family of annotation systems for rendering texts written in Classical Chinese into understandable Korean. Believed to have been developed after the introduction of Chinese Characters during the Three Kingdoms period of Korea, its oldest record is found within Buddhist texts in Chinese from the Goryeo period; reached the height of its use during the Joseon dynasty, when readings of the Chinese classics were of paramount social importance.