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Korean Alphabet

The letters and characters of Korean written in the Korean script, in order — every standard character with its name and codepoint, the additional and punctuation sets, and exactly how many fonts include them. About 79,278,717 people read or write it across 7 countries.

The Korean alphabet — Hangul jamo

Korean is not written letter by letter in a line. Its alphabet, Hangul, has 40 basic letters — 19 consonants and 21 vowels, listed below — and they are stacked into square syllable blocks: a consonant first, a vowel beside or below it, and often one more consonant tucked underneath. The 11,172 standard characters further down this page are those blocks, every combination Korean can write. Learn the 40 letters and the blocks stop being a mystery: each one is just two or three letters fitted together.

Consonants

Vowels

Standard characters

The minimal set of characters required for Korean — the language's alphabet, in its traditional order. Tap a character to copy it; each name opens the full character page.