10-Day Hangul Handwriting Practice

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〈10-Day Hangul〉 Series – Neat, Correct Handwriting If you don't learn proper handwriting as a child, you're likely to develop poor penmanship even as an adult. Most people want to write neatly, but when they actually try to draw a stroke, they can't figure out where to start or how far to draw it. Simply looking at standardized printed letters and copying them turns out to be harder than it seems. Showing exactly where to draw each stroke by dividing the space into concrete sections, and then having the learner trace it, makes learning far easier and more accurate. 《10-Day Hangul: Correct Handwriting》begins with practicing straight lines. Consonants start from the five basic letters and are learned through the principle of adding strokes (gahoek), while vowels start from the basic forms representing Heaven, Earth, and Human (天地人) and are practiced with the principle of combination in mind. According to the Hunminjeongeum Haerye, the consonants were created by modeling the shape of the tongue (ㄱ, ㄴ), the shape of the lips (ㅁ), the shape of a tooth (ㅅ), and the round shape of the throat (ㅇ) — this is the principle of iconicity (sanghyeong) — and then adding strokes to the basic consonants (gahoek) and writing letters side by side (byeongseo) to complete the full set. From ㄱ came ㅋ and ㄲ; from ㄴ came ㄷ, ㅌ, and ㄸ; from ㅁ came ㅂ, ㅍ, and ㅃ; from ㅅ came ㅈ, ㅊ, ㅆ, and ㅉ; and from ㅇ came ㅎ (ㄹ is a special, non-derived letter). For the vowels, the round dot ‘ㆍ’ representing Heaven, the flat line ‘ㅡ’ representing Earth, and the upright line ‘ㅣ’ representing a person standing on the earth and supporting the sky were created as basic forms (sanghyeong); combining these (hapseong) produced ㅗ, ㅏ, ㅜ, ㅓ and ㅛ, ㅑ, ㅠ, ㅕ, which were then further combined (hapyong) to create ㅘ, ㅝ, ㅢ, ㅚ, ㅐ, ㅟ, ㅔ, ㅒ, ㅖ, ㅙ, and ㅞ. 9791196866402 By learning the stroke order of Hangul in line with the very principles used to create Hunminjeongeum, learners naturally absorb the foundations of logical and scientific thinking. Hangul is built from simple, concise elements — dots, lines, and planes — and embedded within it is the mathematical principle of symmetry. The handwriting pages in this textbook were designed by applying that same simplicity and the principle of symmetry, using dots, lines, and planes as core design elements.