{"id":650,"date":"2014-05-04T18:33:52","date_gmt":"2014-05-04T18:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/s526211630.onlinehome.us\/?page_id=650"},"modified":"2014-05-05T01:34:58","modified_gmt":"2014-05-05T01:34:58","slug":"hanja-lessons","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.learnkorean.com\/?page_id=650","title":{"rendered":"Hanja lessons"},"content":{"rendered":"

These lessons start from the simplest characters.\u00a0 Each character is listed with three most-frequently-used word examples where it is used as a part (i.e., lexeme or morpheme), along with actual sentences that contain such words.\u00a0\u00a0Each lesson contains five entries of characters.\u00a0 <\/span><\/small><\/p>\n

Hanja 1<\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Hanja 2<\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/small>Hanja 3<\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Hanja 4<\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/small>Hanja 5<\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Hanja 6<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/small><\/p>\n

Hanja 7<\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Hanja 8<\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/small>Hanja 9<\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Hanja 10<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/small>Hanja 11<\/span><\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>Hanja 12<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/small><\/p>\n

Hanja 13<\/span><\/a> \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span>Hanja 14<\/span><\/a> \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/small>Hanja15<\/span><\/small><\/a><\/p>\n

Background of Hanja<\/em> in the Korean language<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Hanja<\/i>, or ‘Sino-Korean characters’, means the Chinese characters used in Korea, parallel to Japanese kanji<\/i>.\u00a0 The sound of the characters is quite Koreanized, but the meanings are almost exactly the same throughout in Korea, China, and Japan.\u00a0 Getting oriented with some of the basic hanja<\/i>‘s will help you to learn the Far Eastern culture in general.\u00a0 (It will also make you look learned, for hanja<\/i> knowledge has been taken as a symbol of intelligence.)
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\nChinese characters are introduced to Korea more than two thousand years ago.\u00a0 Since Koreans did not have their own writing system until 1446 when King Sejong and the scholars in his Royal Academy (Chiphyonjon) invented Hunmin chong-um<\/em>, the original version of Hangul<\/i>,\u00a0 the writing system of China was employed as their official writing system in the very early times of history.\u00a0 The Korean language has thus received a vast influence from Chinese over the long period of time, especially in terms of its vocabulary.<\/span><\/small><\/p>\n

Chinese-based parts of the language still prevails a huge portion even in present-day Korean.\u00a0 The Korean number system would make a good example.\u00a0 Korean, like Japanese, has two sets of numbers: native Korean and Sino-Korean.\u00a0 Koreans do use the native Korean numbers, but the Sino-Korean set is also used as much.\u00a0 When you tell time, you use the native numbers for the hour, while using the Sino-Korean numbers for the minutes and seconds: e.g., tu-shi iship-pun samship-ch`o<\/em> (two-o’cklock twenty-minute thirty-second: 2:20:30, where tu<\/em> is native Korean and i<\/em> is Sino-Korean for ‘two’.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

These lessons start from the simplest characters.\u00a0 Each character is listed with three most-frequently-used word examples where it is used as a part (i.e., lexeme or morpheme), along with actual sentences that contain such words.\u00a0\u00a0Each lesson contains five entries of…<\/p>\n

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