Hangul Chart: The Korean Alphabet With Stroke Order

Hangul, the Korean alphabet, has 14 basic consonants and 10 basic vowels. Add 5 double consonants and 11 combined vowels and you have the 40 letters below, each with its romanization and stroke order. Tap a letter to watch it written.

Letters are not written in a row: they stack into square syllable blocks, a consonant first, then a vowel, sometimes a final consonant. 한 is ㅎ + ㅏ + ㄴ, han. The syllable chart further down shows the 140 blocks you can make from the basic letters.

Letters40
RomanizationRevised
StrokesHangul Writer

The 40 Hangul letters

Each consonant shows its name and its sound at the start and at the end of a syllable. Romanization follows the Revised Romanization of Korean.

Basic consonants 14

Double consonants 5

Basic vowels 10

Combined vowels 11

Syllable chart: consonant plus vowel

Every basic consonant with every basic vowel: 140 blocks. Read across a row to hear one consonant with each vowel; ㅇ at the start is silent, so its row is the vowels on their own.

Korean syllables from the 14 basic consonants and 10 basic vowels
	ㅏ	ㅑ	ㅓ	ㅕ	ㅗ	ㅛ	ㅜ	ㅠ	ㅡ	ㅣ
ㄱ	가 ga	갸 gya	거 geo	겨 gyeo	고 go	교 gyo	구 gu	규 gyu	그 geu	기 gi
ㄴ	나 na	냐 nya	너 neo	녀 nyeo	노 no	뇨 nyo	누 nu	뉴 nyu	느 neu	니 ni
ㄷ	다 da	댜 dya	더 deo	뎌 dyeo	도 do	됴 dyo	두 du	듀 dyu	드 deu	디 di
ㄹ	라 ra	랴 rya	러 reo	려 ryeo	로 ro	료 ryo	루 ru	류 ryu	르 reu	리 ri
ㅁ	마 ma	먀 mya	머 meo	며 myeo	모 mo	묘 myo	무 mu	뮤 myu	므 meu	미 mi
ㅂ	바 ba	뱌 bya	버 beo	벼 byeo	보 bo	뵤 byo	부 bu	뷰 byu	브 beu	비 bi
ㅅ	사 sa	샤 sya	서 seo	셔 syeo	소 so	쇼 syo	수 su	슈 syu	스 seu	시 si
ㅇ	아 a	야 ya	어 eo	여 yeo	오 o	요 yo	우 u	유 yu	으 eu	이 i
ㅈ	자 ja	쟈 jya	저 jeo	져 jyeo	조 jo	죠 jyo	주 ju	쥬 jyu	즈 jeu	지 ji
ㅊ	차 cha	챠 chya	처 cheo	쳐 chyeo	초 cho	쵸 chyo	추 chu	츄 chyu	츠 cheu	치 chi
ㅋ	카 ka	캬 kya	커 keo	켜 kyeo	코 ko	쿄 kyo	쿠 ku	큐 kyu	크 keu	키 ki
ㅌ	타 ta	탸 tya	터 teo	텨 tyeo	토 to	툐 tyo	투 tu	튜 tyu	트 teu	티 ti
ㅍ	파 pa	퍄 pya	퍼 peo	펴 pyeo	포 po	표 pyo	푸 pu	퓨 pyu	프 peu	피 pi
ㅎ	하 ha	햐 hya	허 heo	혀 hyeo	호 ho	효 hyo	후 hu	휴 hyu	흐 heu	히 hi

How to learn hangul

Learn the shapes as pictures of sounds. King Sejong and his scholars created hangul in 1443 and drew the basic consonants after the speech organs: ㄱ is the back of the tongue raised to the throat, ㄴ the tongue touching the gum behind the teeth, ㅁ the mouth, ㅅ a tooth, ㅇ the throat. An extra stroke adds a puff of air: ㄱ to ㅋ, ㄷ to ㅌ, ㅂ to ㅍ, ㅈ to ㅊ.
Build the vowels from three strokes. A short stroke (once a dot, for the sky), ㅡ for the earth and ㅣ for people. ㅏ and ㅓ put the short stroke right or left of ㅣ; ㅗ and ㅜ above or below ㅡ. A second short stroke adds a y: ㅑ ya, ㅕ yeo, ㅛ yo, ㅠ yu.
Write top to bottom, left to right. Each letter, and each block, follows that order. ㅇ is one stroke, a circle drawn counterclockwise from the top.
Remember that ㅇ changes job. At the start of a block it is silent: 아 is just a. At the end it is ng: 강 gang (river).
Read real words early. With ten letters you can read 나무 namu (tree), 바다 bada (sea) and 사람 saram (person). Reading whole blocks, not single letters, is what makes Korean text fast.

Practice them in a tile puzzle

GlyphLink is a free tile-matching puzzle for iPhone and iPad, and its Korean hangul set, 441 common syllables built from these letters, is free. Spotting the same blocks again and again trains your eye for them.

Try a small board right here: tap two identical tiles and link them with a line that turns twice or less.

Score: 0
Combo: ×0
Pairs: 12

A small, gentle demo with no clock. In the app, boards have 52, 80 or 114 tiles and about four minutes on the clock.

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Opens the GlyphLink App Clip: a real board in seconds, right here on your iPhone or iPad.

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Sources and licence

Stroke order: Hangul Writer by Miro, built on Hanzi Writer by David Chanin, MIT licence (jamo exported from the hangul-writer 1.0.1 package).
Romanization: the Revised Romanization of Korean.

You may reuse the chart on this page under CC BY-SA 4.0, with credit to GlyphLink; the Hangul Writer stroke data keeps its MIT licence. The stroke file this page plays is hangul-chart.json.