3. Korean Syllable Construction
The way to Write Syllables in Korean is not that obvious as in English. But, with some understanding of basic rules, writing or constructing Korean syllables is almost a mechanical process that resembles WYSWYG (what you see is what you get) style and will become intuitive rather easily (caution! this is the case for writing syllable part only. Writing words is more complicated because of some pronunciation rules). In this episode we are going to construct some of the Korean syllables using 14 basic consonants and one vowel, which we have studied in the previous two episodes.
One of the Korean syllable types can be conveniently constructed using a sectioned square box. This square filled with proper phoneme makes one unit of Korean syllable and there is a rule to fill this box. Treating each compound consonant as unit, the L section has to contain only one consonant, and R section has to have only one vowel (treating compound vowel as a unit vowel). The B (bottom) section on the other hand can have nothing (blank) or should contain only one consonant. So far we have learned 14 basic consonants (ㄱ, ㄴ, ㄷ, ㄹ, ㅁ, ㅂ, ㅅ, ㅇ, ㅈ, ㅊ, ㅋ, ㅌ, ㅎ) and one vowel (ㅏ). In theory we can construct 14 x 1 x 15 = 210 different syllables. Some of them is not used in modern Korean but practicing these syllable constructing should help you write Korean
Source: http://busyatom-koreanalphabet.blogspot.com/
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