훈몽자회
KoreanEdit
EtymologyEdit
Sino-Korean word from 訓 (“teach”) + 蒙 (“ignorant”) + 字 (“character”) + 會 (“to assemble, meet together”).
PronunciationEdit
- (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA(key): [ˈɸʷu(ː)nmo̞ŋd͡ʑa̠βwe̞] ~ [ˈɸʷu(ː)nmo̞ŋd͡ʑa̠ɦø̞]
- Phonetic hangul: [훈(ː)몽자훼/훈(ː)몽자회]
- Though still prescriptive in Standard Korean, the great majority of speakers (in both Koreas) no longer distinguish vowel length.
| Romanizations | |
|---|---|
| Revised Romanization? | hunmongjahoe |
| Revised Romanization (translit.)? | hunmongjahoe |
| McCune–Reischauer? | hunmongjahoe |
| Yale Romanization? | hwūnmongcahoy |
Proper nounEdit
훈몽자회 • (Hunmongjahoe) (hanja 訓蒙字會)
- Collection of Characters for Training the Unenlightened: a 1527 book by Choe Sejin that defined the modern order and names of the hangeul letters as currently used in South Korea