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Idu script
A page from the 19th-century yuseopilji.
Korean name
Hangul
이두
Hanja
吏讀
Revised Romanization
Idu
McCune–Reischauer
Idu
Korean writing systems
Hangul
Chosŏn'gŭl (in North Korea)
New Korean Orthography
Hanja
Gukja (Yakja)
Gugyeol
Idu (Hyangchal)
Mixed script
Braille
Transcription
McCune–Reischauer
Romanization of Korean (North)
Revised Romanization (South)
Bok Moon Kim romanization [ko]
Kontsevich (Cyrillic)
Kholodovich system [ru] (Cyrillic)
Transliteration
Yale (scholar)
ISO/TR 11941
SKATS (coding)
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Chinese characters
Chinese family of scripts
Written Chinese
Kanji
Hanja
Chữ Hán
Evolution of script styles
Neolithic symbols in China
Oracle bone
Bronze
Seal
Large
Small
Bird-worm
Clerical
Cursive
Semi-cursive
Regular
Flat brush
Typefaces
Fangsong
Ming
sans-serif
Properties and classification
Components
Strokes
order
Radicals
Collation and standards
Kangxi Dictionary forms (1716)
General Standard Characters (PRC, 2013)
Commonly-Used Characters (Hong Kong, 2007)
Nan Min Recommended Characters (Taiwan, 2009)
Standard Form of National Characters (Taiwan, 1982)
Jōyō kanji (Japan, 2010)
Reforms
Simplified characters
second round
Traditional characters
debate
Japanese script reform
kyūjitai
Homographs and readings
Literary and colloquial readings
Kanbun
Idu
Variants
Zetian characters
Derived systems
Kana
man'yōgana
hiragana
katakana
Jurchen script
Khitan
large
small
Nüshu
Bopomofo
Slavonic transcription
Transliteration of Chinese
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Idu (Korean: 이두; Hanja: 吏讀 "official's reading") is an archaic writing system that represents the Korean language using Chinese characters ("hanja"). The script, which was developed by Buddhist monks, made it possible to record Korean words through their equivalent meaning or sound in Chinese.[1]
The term idu may refer to various systems of representing Korean phonology through hanja, which were used from the early Three Kingdoms to Joseon periods. In this sense, it includes hyangchal,[2] the local writing system used to write vernacular poetry[2] and gugyeol writing. Its narrow sense only refers to idu proper[3] or the system developed in the Goryeo (918–1392), and first referred to by name in the Jewang ungi.
^Lowe, Roy & Yasuhara, Yoshihito (2016). The Origins of Higher Learning: Knowledge Networks and the Early Development of Universities. Oxon: Taylor & Francis. p. 80. ISBN 978-1-138-84482-7.
^ abGrimshaw-Aagaard, Mark; Walther-Hansen, Mads & Knakkergaard, Martin (2019). The Oxford Handbook of Sound and Imagination. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 426. ISBN 978-0-19-046016-7.
^Li, Yu (2019-11-04). The Chinese Writing System in Asia: An Interdisciplinary Perspective. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-00-069906-7.
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notion that mixed script was a Japanese creation include the fact that the concept of a "mixed script" predates Hangŭl in the forms of Idu, Kugyŏl, and Hyangchal...
which developed organically over the history of Chinese script. The traditional model of scripts appearing suddenly in a well-defined order has been discredited...
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