Korean Hangeul Consonants

Jaeum - Consonants

There are 14 consonants, and their shape is based upon five fundamental articulator shapes.
The basic five are nieun (N-sound), mieum (M-sound), siot (S-sound, but can also sound like a soft T at the end of a syllable), ieung (silent when at the beginning of a syllable, NG sound, like sing and ring, when it is at the end of a syllable), and giyeok (between G and K sound, a soft unvoiced k).

Adding strokes, Tension or Aspiration

From giyeok, add a line to get kieuk strong, aspirated K (like kite).
From nieun, add a line to get a digeut (between a D and T), add another line to get a tieut, to get a strong, aspirated T (like toy).
From mieum, add a line to get a bieup (between a B and P), add another line to get a pieup, a strong, aspirated P (like pipe).
From siot, add a line to get a jieut (between a J and a soft Ch), add another line to get a chieut, a strong, aspirated CH.
With ieung, it is unique, and, a placeholder vowel carrier (turns "ah" sounds into "yah!" sounds), and, a final sound of "Ng".

The strong (tense) consonants are made by doubling the basic ones, and, sound more tense, and pushed out.
Ssanggiyeok = tense KK.
Ssangdigeut = tense TT.
Ssangbieup = tense PP.
Ssangjieut = tense JJ.

*** Consolidation time ***

Close your eyes, stretch, breathe deeply and integrate everything from today's lesson for 20-30 seconds. You have done, and are doing amazing. No really, there is nothing else to my lessons!

A hint for newbies learning from English, there are more rules than I can show in one go, but, you can roughly tell I use squared paper to help me line everything up.

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