| Hangul (??) is the native alphabet used to write the
Korean language, as opposed to the Hanja system borrowed
from China. For other Romanized spellings of "Hangul",
please see Names below.
While Hangul may appear logographic to the uninitiated,
it is actually phonemic. Each Hangul syllabic block
consists of at least two of the 24 alphabetic letters
(jamo): 14 consonants and 10 vowels. Historically, the
alphabet had several more consonants and vowels. (See
Obsolete Jamo.) For a phonological description of the
letters, see Phonology.
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