Why did the ancient Koreans use Chinese characters but not Chinese?
2024-09-19 16:36
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Ancient Koreans used Chinese characters, but they might not be able to speak Chinese. This is because Chinese characters and Chinese are two different language systems. Chinese characters are an ideograph in East Asia, mainly spread in China and the Korean Peninsula. Chinese is modern Chinese, the general name of Chinese dialect, which is composed of Mandarin, Cantonese, Hokkien and many other dialect. Ancient Koreans used a type of Chinese characters, but due to their geographical location and cultural environment, they might use different dialect or spoken language to express the same meaning. Therefore, when ancient Koreans used Chinese characters, they could not speak Chinese but the local language written in Chinese characters.
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2024-09-19 16:25
My answer was a little unclear. Koreans used Chinese characters in formal situations not because they knew Chinese. In fact, the official language of Korea was Korean, and Chinese characters...
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2024-09-19 16:18
The official language of Korea was Hangul, the national language of Korea. Although Korea also uses Chinese as a second language, Chinese is not the official language of Korea.
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2024-09-07 06:32
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