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What is the difference in this Korean terminology?
Can someone please tell me the difference between the Korean terms hangul, patch'im, natsori and jamo? Are they the same as the words alphabet, letters and characters, which we use somewhat interchangeably in English?
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- ?Lv 41 decade agoFavorite Answer
hangul - Korean alphabet
partchim - this is the last consonant of a letter (usually at the bottom)
natsori - I think this is the phonetic sound of each character
jamo - The each alphabet and all the combination
The last two aren't really used.
(jaum - consonant)
(moum - vowel)
You would generally use the 2 I mentioned above more often which would be like the individual characters. When you combine them, you create a letter (gulja) and then you combine the letters you make a word. It's a different concept than the English language, but that's pretty much what it is. Patchim is just referring to the consonant at the bottom for a letter.
