ㅸ
Appearance
Cia-Cia
Letter
- The sound /f/
Korean
Letter
(deprecated template usage) ㅸ • (transliteration needed)
- Template:mostly The sound /v/ in foreign languages
Usage notes
- The use of this, together with several other archaic letters such as ㅿ, was prescribed in the the official South Korean guidelines for hangulization (Template:Kore, deuron mal jeongneun beop),that were in effect from 1948 to 1958, authored by linguist Choe Hyeon-bae. Although this system did not see widespread uptake, a similar system is occasionally used online.
Middle Korean
Pronunciation
- (deprecated use of
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parameter) IPA(key): /β/
Letter
(deprecated template usage) ㅸ (W)
- The sound known as 가벼운비읍 (gabyeounbieup, “gabyeoun bieup”), a voiced bilabial fricative; /β/. This vanished around 1480 when /β/ became /w/.
References
- Samuel Elmo Martin (1992) A Reference Grammar of Korean