[KS] hangul to hanja conversion online

[gkl1 at columbia.edu]

Hi List,

Admittedly a huge number of Chinese words and compounds have become  
part of Korean's vocabulary, just as a huge number of Greek and and  
Latin words have become a part of the vocabulary of English (and the  
other European languages too). But it's distressing to learn that  
people might think ANY Korean word would be writable with Chinese  
characters. If that were so, then Korean would be a language in the  
Sino-Tibetan family. It's hard enough to get scholarly agreement on  
what language family CAN claim Korean's ancestry, but any linguistic  
reference work would make it clear that it's not a Chinese-type  
language.

Gari Ledyard

Quoting Clark W Sorensen <sangok at u.washington.edu>:

> Caren,
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> Namaksin is a native Korean word, so it doesn't have corresponding
> Chinese characters. However, any of the on-line dictionaries will give
> the characters for Korean words such as at naver.com. The problem is
> you have to input the Korean in hangul.
>
> Clark Sorensen
>
> On Fri, 25 May 2012, Freeman, Caren (cwf8q) wrote:
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>> I’m asking this question on behalf of a colleague who is a  
>> sinologist.  He asks:
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>> “i want to see what chinese characters correspond to korean  
>> "Namaksin"  wooden clogs.  Namaksin (나막신)
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>> Is there an online dictionary that gives the classic readings for  
>> korean words entered in pinyin type western alphabet?”
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>> Many thanks for your recommendations,
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>> Caren Freeman
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