{"id":305,"date":"2011-03-10T22:45:26","date_gmt":"2011-03-11T06:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/?p=305"},"modified":"2011-04-02T22:27:01","modified_gmt":"2011-04-03T05:27:01","slug":"gugyeol-950-ad-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/10\/gugyeol-950-ad-korea\/","title":{"rendered":"Gugyeol &#8212; 950? AD, Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_313\" style=\"width: 110px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/kwukyelHol.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-313\" class=\"size-full wp-image-313\" title=\"kwukyelHol\" src=\"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/kwukyelHol.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"118\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-313\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gugyeol &quot;hol&quot;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Gugyeol, also transliterated as Kwukyel,\u00a0 and also sometimes called Tho, was developed to help convert Chinese literature into understandable Korean.\u00a0 The <a href=\"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/08\/chinese-traditional-chinese\/\">Chinese characters<\/a> and word order were preserved, but characters for word endings, particles, and some verb forms were tacked on to make the text more understandable for Koreans.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike in <a href=\"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/08\/idu-650-ad-korea\/\">Idu<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/09\/hyangchal-600-ad-korea\/\">Hyangchal<\/a>, which used the standard Chinese characters &#8220;as is&#8221;, in Gugyeol, they frequently used a simplified character for the extra, Korean-specific characters (much in the same way that <a href=\"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/04\/hiragana-800-ad-japan\/\">Hiragana<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/05\/katakana-800-ad-japan\/\">Katakana<\/a> were simplified forms of the <a href=\"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/03\/manyogana-450-ad-japan\/\">Manyogana<\/a> glyphs).<\/p>\n<p>Links: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gugyeol\">Wikipedia<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/assets.cambridge.org\/97805218\/28581\/sample\/9780521828581ws.pdf\">A History of Korean Literature<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chinesedic.com\/en\/one+of+the+characters+used+in+kwukyel+%28phonetic+%22myeon%22%29\">Gugyeol glyphs<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.ca\/books?id=Sx6gdJIOcoQC&amp;pg=PA125&amp;lpg=PA125&amp;dq=kyun+ye+biography+korea&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=qmT-pc5UjG&amp;sig=I1Oi4lm4fPO5M5eJhNW6EScEMvA&amp;hl=en&amp;ei=PCp3TZKCFor6sAPT-6nMBA&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=book_result&amp;ct=result&amp;resnum=3&amp;ved=0CCUQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false\">The Korean Language<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gugyeol, also transliterated as Kwukyel,\u00a0 and also sometimes called Tho, was developed to help convert Chinese literature into understandable Korean.\u00a0 The Chinese characters and word order were preserved, but characters for word endings, particles, and some verb forms were tacked &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/10\/gugyeol-950-ad-korea\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,28,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-logograms-language-types","category-interesting","category-syllabaries-language-types"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}