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first syllable of 흰색

djveer6990
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first syllable of 흰색

Postby djveer6990 » October 31st, 2013 4:39 pm

Hi ... annjeonghaseyo!

Ok I have been trying to learn some Korean, just for fun, for a week now. I started off with Hangul.

Today however I encountered the word 흰색, heen-sek, meaning "white", and I can't understand what is going on here. It is the first syllable. My issue is with the horizontal stroke under the . To what letter does that stroke belong?

Gamsahamnida!

Hmmmm. Can it be part the semivowel that is sometimes transscribed as "ui"?

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Re: first syllable of 흰색

Postby kc101com » November 5th, 2013 8:31 am

Hi djveer,


That is a good start - no pressure and you are definitely in the right place if you are looking for fun!;)

And your question can really be confusing and here are my thoughts below.

For the word 흰색, we could break down into these : ㅎ,ㅢ,ㄴ, ㅅ,ㅐ,ㄱ

So here, both of them have used the double vowels which means the two of each vowel are combined to make certain sound.

While ㅡ [eu, the mouth would look like this but to show the lower teeth more], and ㅣ[e], themselves could make a sound, by adding up, it sounds like [ui], starting off ㅡ sound then ㅣ. That is how it could make the sound 흰.

색 is exactly the same pattern!

For your reference, you could look up this link below:
http://www.koreanclass101.com/2012/06/1 ... -vowels-3/

Please feel free to let us know if you are still not sure - we will do our best to help you out ;)



Thank you

Madison
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