▪ I. hangul1
(ˈhʌŋgʊl)
Also hungal.
[Kashmiri h{amactilde}ngul.]
A deer, Cervus cashmiriensis, related to and perhaps a race of the red deer.
| 1858 A. L. Adams in Proc. Zool. Soc. XXVI. 529 Cervus cashmeriensis..Barra Singa and Hanglu of the Cashmerees. 1869 A. A. A. Kinloch Large Game Shooting 44 Cashmeerie hangul. 1898 R. Lydekker Deer of all Lands 83 The Hangul—Cervus cashmirianus. 1922 Blackw. Mag. Mar. 334/1 The hungal or Kashmir stag, found on the western side of Chamba. 1955 I. T. Sanderson Living Mammals of World 251/1 The real Red Deer{ddd}include..the Hangul of Kashmir. 1973 Times 20 Feb. (India Suppl.) p. xi/3 The lordly Hangul, the most magnificent of deer, also dwell here. |
▪ II. ‖ hangul2
(ˈhangul)
Also hankul.
[Korean, f. Han Korea + kul script, alphabet.]
The Korean national phonetic alphabet (formerly called onmun).
| 1951 C. Osgood Koreans & their Culture xvi. 323 Books were printed in the native alphabet, ŏnmun (or hangŭl), with the innovation of having the characters run horizontally from left to right instead of vertically. 1953 D. Portway Korea vii. 122 Sino-Korean words can be transcribed into hangul. 1966 S. M{supc}Cune Korea xiii. 182 One of the benefits of the Korean phonetic writing system, hangul..has been that it could be quickly learned by those who speak Korean. 1972 P. M. Bartz S. Korea iv. 39/1 In its modern form, Hangul consists of 24 phonetic symbols and is considered one of the most ingenious writing systems ever devised. 1972 Computers & Humanities VI. 264 The entries are transcriptions of the Korean syllabary (hangul) used to annotate those Chinese characters. |