Consonants in Hangul are designed to look like the speaker’s mouth shape when making the corresponding sounds, whereas vowels consist of lines and points that represent the Earth, the Sun, and the human. As a featural writing system, Hangul is one of the only alphabets that feature an explicit connection between a letter’s iconography and the letter’s pronunciation.
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What do the shapes in Hangul represent?
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