We now turn to vowels. Korean vowels are built around either a vertical or a horizontal line: in general, back vowels are horizontal and non-back (mid and front) vowels vertical. First it starts with two simple vertical and horizontal lines, read as a high front and mid vowel respectively. Note that the high mid vowel is unrounded. A short line is added to the right or left of the lines to make two central vowels and two rounded back vowels: And yet another vertical line can be added to the two central vowels to make them fronted: Korean also has glides, front and rounded, which are represented in rather unique ways. Front glides are derived by adding another short line. [ BACK << >> NEXT ] [ Hangul Tips Front | Hangul Tips Last | Alphabet Chart ]