Choe Sejin
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| Choe Sejin | |
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| Hangul | 최세진 |
| Hanja | 崔世珍 |
| Revised Romanization | Choe Se(-)jin |
| McCune–Reischauer | Ch'oe Sejin |
Choe Sejin (1473–1542) was a Korean linguist, educator, and a proponent of hangul during the Joseon Dynasty. He is of the Goesan Choe clan and courtesy name was Gongseo (공서; 公瑞).[1]
Choe devised the modern South Korean order of the hangul letters, and assigned names to the letters. His most famous book on hangul is the Hunmong Jahoe (훈몽자회; 訓蒙字會 "Collection of Characters for Training the Unenlightened (= Kids)", 1527).
Choe was an official interpreter in the Korean embassies in Beijing, and so he also documented colloquial northern Chinese languages (Haner).
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- ^ "최세진 崔世珍 [Choe Se-jin]" (in Korean). Encyclopedia of Korean Culture. http://www.encyber.com/search_w/ctdetail.php?masterno=147691&contentno=147691. Retrieved 2009-09-18.
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