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       In the Korean (Hangul) alphabet there are 14 regular consonants and 10 regular vowels. Many months ago we produced both an Alphabet chart 
       and a practice writing series looking at these 140 consonant and vowel pairings. However there are also 11 commonly used combined vowels 
       which if added to the 14 regular consonants makes an additional 151 pairings (291 in total). Below we have made both a guide to the creation 
       and pronunciation (in English) of Korean combined vowels plus also a full combined vowel vs. consonants alphabet chart. 
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                             Korean Combined Vowels Creation and Pronunciation 
                             Korean (Hangul) combined vowels can be split into two sections the 4 A sound combined 
                             vowels and the 7 W sound combined vowels. 
                             Firstly the A sound vowels, here is a chart showing how each one is created: 
                              
                             As you can see from the chart each vowel combination ends in  a ㅣ(E sound) and so when 
                             combined with the ㅏ,ㅓ,ㅑ and ㅕ make the following sounds; ㅔ sounds like A (similar to 
                             the saying the letter in English),ᅢsounds like Ae (like the start of the English word End). 
                             Next we have ㅖ which sounds like yeh & ㅒ sounds like yah. 
                                            
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                               Secondly the W sound combined vowels, once again here is a chart showing how each 
                               vowel is created: 
                                
                               The first two combined vowels are ᅪ which sounds Wa (like in Wario) and ᅯwhich 
                               sounds like Wo (like in Water). The next three ᅫ, ᅰ and ᅬare all similar and require the 
                               use of different tones; ᅫ sounds like the start of  “Wag”, ᅰ sounds like the start of 
                               “Wedding” and ᅬ sounds like the start of “Weight”. There is also ᅱ which sounds the 
                               same as Wii as in the Nintendo Wii. Finally we have ᅴ which has a unique double sound 
                               like in the word “Gooey”. 
                                             
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                                          Korean Alphabet Chart – Combined Vowels 
                                                             Combined Vowels 
                Consonants      ㅔ  ㅐ  ㅖ  ㅒ  ㅘ  ㅝ                            ㅙ       ㅞ      ㅚ       ㅟ  ㅢ 
                               (Ae)  (Ah)  (Ye)  (Yeh)  (Wa)  (Wo)  (Wae)  (We)  (Way)  (Wi)  (Oe) 
                   ㄱ (G)        게  개  계  걔  과  궈  괘  궤  괴  귀  긔 
                   ㄴ (N)        네  내  녜  냬  놔  눠  놰  눼  뇌  뉘  늬 
                   ㄷ (D)        데  대  뎨  댸  돠  둬  돼  뒈  되  뒤  듸 
                  ㄹ (R/L)       레  래  례  럐  롸  뤄  뢔  뤠  뢰  뤼  릐 
                   ㅁ (M)        메  매  몌  먜  뫄  뭐  뫠  뭬  뫼  뮈  믜 
                   ㅂ (B)        베  배  볘  뱨  봐  붜  봬  붸  뵈  뷔  븨 
                   ㅅ (S)        세  새  셰  섀  솨  숴  쇄  쉐  쇠  쉬  싀 
                ㅇ (silent)      에  애  예  얘  와  워  왜  웨  외  위  의 
                   ㅈ (J)        제  재  졔  쟤  좌  줘  좨  줴  죄  쥐  즤 
                  ㅊ (CH)        체  채  쳬  챼  촤  춰  쵀  췌  최  취  츼 
                   ㅋ (K)        케  캐  켸  컈  콰  쿼  쾌  퀘  쾨  퀴  킈 
                   ㅌ (T)        테  태  톄  턔  톼  퉈  퇘  퉤  퇴  튀  틔 
                   ㅍ (P)        페  패  폐  퍠  퐈  풔  퐤  풰  푀  퓌  픠 
                   ㅎ (H)        헤  해  혜  햬  화  훠  홰  훼  회  휘  희 
             
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