Contents & Introduction

Appendix: detailed contents
    Guide notice                                                    259

         1. Focus on the principles and philosophy of creation      261
         2. Hunminjeongeum, Jeongeum, and Hangul                    262
         3. Obsolete tones in sound                                 263
         4. New terms                                               263
         5. Naming for initial consonants: ㄱ (Geu-iG), ㄴ (Neu-iN)   269
         6. Order of consonant root letters: ㅇ ㅅ ㅁ ㄴ ㄱ              271
         7. Philosophy terms in Korean                              272


    Additional explanation                                          279
         1. ㅇ and ㆁ                                                 281
         2. Initial consonants missing in current Hangul            282
         3. Gongwae and Bokgwae, Jasi, Chuksi, Insi                 283
         4. Fanqie method for representing Chinese                  284
            pronunciation
         5. Initial consonants for representing Chinese             285
            characters
         6. Vowel harmony                                           287
         7. The order of Hangul consonants and vowels               288
         8. The number of sounds in Hangul                          290
         9. 123 mystery of ㅇㅁㅅ                                      295
         10. The number ‘0’ and the initial sound ‘ㅇ’               298

         11. Hangul and Cheonbugyeong, The Universe Principle       302

         12. Hangul, a universal writing system                     305

         13. Jeongeum Hangul, a new Hangul for humanity             308

         14. Frequency analysis of modern Hangul usage              312

         15. Hangul, the foundation of Hallyu                       317



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