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| IronFist Senior Member United States Joined 6240 days ago 663 posts - 941 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Korean | Message 1 of 6 12 August 2012 at 8:42pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I use the word "cluster" to refer to a group or syllable of hangeul. I don't know if that's a real linguistic term or not but I first heard it from a Korean years ago and I have always used it since.
I saw this sign at a Korean market today. It's a handwritten font so I had some trouble reading it. I have no idea what the first one I circled is; it looks like "ng" on top of "kk" on top of "n" and I know that's not a real thing. And now that I look at it, what is the one two to the right of that one that looks like a Thai letter, or an italics u with a circle at the end? What's the second one? I have no guesses on that one. Looks like "k" on top of "n". Is the third circled one "man"?  Edited by IronFist on 12 August 2012 at 8:47pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Leurre Bilingual Pentaglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5228 days ago 219 posts - 372 votes Speaks: French*, English*, Korean, Haitian Creole, SpanishC2 Studies: Japanese | Message 2 of 6 12 August 2012 at 8:47pm | IP Logged | |||||
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로 만 신선한 원료와 위생적인 시설에서 어머니의 마음으로 정성껏 만들었습닌다. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| IronFist Senior Member United States Joined 6240 days ago 663 posts - 941 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Korean | Message 3 of 6 12 August 2012 at 10:43pm | IP Logged | |||||
I never would've guessed that 
I see it now that you mention it, though.
Thanks!! Edited by IronFist on 12 August 2012 at 10:44pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Warp3 Senior Member United States forum_posts.asp?TID= Joined 5338 days ago 1419 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Korean, Japanese | Message 4 of 6 13 August 2012 at 12:22am | IP Logged | |||||
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Handwriting fonts take a while to get the hang of. Knowing the stroke order helps a lot since the lines involved follow those patterns.
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| mjhowie1992 Diglot Newbie AustraliaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4983 days ago 24 posts - 27 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Mandarin | Message 5 of 6 24 August 2012 at 2:54pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I have a Korean friend from church who writes Korean like this, but even more
indecipherable. Even she cannot read her writing easily after writing it. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Pip Diglot Groupie South Africa Joined 6249 days ago 48 posts - 55 votes Speaks: English*, Afrikaans Studies: French | Message 6 of 6 09 September 2012 at 2:37am | IP Logged | |||||
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IronFist, the key to reading handwritten Korean is to use logic to decipher the font. For example you initially wrote that the first cluster looked like ㅇ ontop of a ㄲ, but in Korean that combination would be impossible. My advice is to always remember the rules of Korean syllable formation: V, VC, CVC, CVCC, then try decipher the word after which you can double check it to see if the meaning matches up with the overall text. That being said, the font you see there is how they write things in Korea, especially the ㅁ and the ㄹ: they tend to write the ㅁ with only two pen strokes and the ㄹ with only one.
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