Sinocorean

Korean spelling
Korean alphabet :	한자 말 / 한자어
Hanja :	漢字 말 / 漢字 語
Revised Romanization :	Hanjamal / Hanja-eo
McCune-Reischauer :	Hanchamal / Hanchaŏ

Sinokorean is a term from linguistics and is made up of the words " Sino- " (Latin for China ) and the country name Korea .

The background to this is that by adopting the Chinese script , the Koreans also adopted the original Chinese pronunciation of the characters and largely retained them.

Many words are therefore present twice in the Korean language , once of purely Korean origin, a second time Sino-Korean, i.e. of Chinese origin.

For example, the character 木 means tree and is pronounced mok ( 목 ). The purely Korean namu ( 나무 ) has the same meaning, but in contrast to most Sino- Korean sememes such as mok, it can also stand alone.

Sometimes both forms exist side by side on an equal footing, but sometimes one has also become less common. In contrast to Japanese Kanji , Korean Hanja is always pronounced in Sinocorean when reading in Korean today, so Hanja 木 is always mok and never namu.

The sign 一 “one” is called han il ( 한 일 ) in Korean . Han il means something like " one- / il / " - han is the pure Korean word for "one" , il is the Korean pronunciation of the character 一 , which is related to the Chinese pronunciation yī .

German	Korean (in Hanja )	Chinese	Korean (in Hangeul )
check	手 票	支票 (zhīpiào)	수표 (supyo)
Visiting card	名 啣	名片 (míngpiàn)	명함 (myeongham)
Learn	工夫	學習  /  学习 (xuéxí)	공부 (gongbu)
Airport	空港	空港 (kōnggǎng)	공항 (gonghang)
Prisoner	囚人	囚徒 (qiúitú)	수인 (suin)