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Busan Metro

so korean only use chinese character for place name?

They use Hanja to refer names.

Major exception is Seoul, because it has no corresponding Hanja.

nice design

The abandoning of Hanja usage is one of the most WTF in Korean language. Especially when most of the words are borrowed from Chinese language. Nowadays, if you ask a kid why certain words are pronounced as such, they can't answer.

i see a lot of zero n hook there

This post has been edited by atombom123: Dec 15 2011, 09:02 PM

1,2,3 also chinese wan?

in a way, but it makes korean learning the language easier compare to learning chinese..but i guess the problem is lack of vocabulary..

in korean - Hanja

In hokkien - han ji

in mandarin - han zi

in english - han language

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Wrong.

Chinese characters is the term in English.

you are alert

I don't think there is a problem of vocabulary, there are still plenty of words. The problem is with identifying homophones i.e. words with same sound and spelling but different meanings. If they were spelled with Hanja, you'd see the difference right away.

Of course, this isn't a problem in speech, only in writings (where they tend to use more complicated words).

korean hangul is the easy language to learn.

tabik to King Sejong The Great.

This post has been edited by kedingman: Dec 15 2011, 09:23 PM

But to be more specific, all japanese, korean, cantonese, chinese character copied hokkien character. Example, korean,japanese used sensei to address teacher but in mandarin is laoshi.

Maybe old Mandarin used sensei as well? Before it evolved to its current use. Can't comment much, as I don't know much about the history of the current Mandarin.

jipun = kanji

seoul metro aslo got hanja

Old mandarin is 'hokkien'. madarin was created during gengis khan time to unify all groups.Mandarin is actually used to improvise hokkien last time.

The hanja still used in Korea but limited to ancient temples, glamour korean name & etc but usage getting lesser liao.

That MRT signboard wth Hanja (Traditional Chinese) is actually for Chinese and Japanese visitors wth the almost same pronounciation in hangul. BTW, the MRT announcement is also in Korean, English & mandarin

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Added on December 15, 2011, 9:32 pmAnyway all Korea period dramas for sure still used Hanja/kanji, han zhi haha

This post has been edited by stimix: Dec 15 2011, 09:32 PM

Cantonese is one of the last one to copy chinese character. That is why cantonese has a mixed of mandarin and hokkien origin.