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Hangul
40 letters: 14 consonants, 10 vowels, 5 double consonants and 11 compound vowels. Tap one to hear it, see how it is written stroke by stroke, and get a memory hook. Tick the box on the ones you want to work on, then practise them. Anything you drill goes into your review schedule automatically.
Tap a letter to see how it sounds, how it is written stroke by stroke, and a memory hook. Tick the box in its corner to pick it for practice, or use a group's Select all, then press Practise.
Basic consonants
Fourteen. The shapes picture the mouth: ㄱ is the back of the tongue raised, ㄴ the tip of the tongue touching the ridge behind the teeth, ㅁ the closed lips.
Basic vowels
Ten, built from three ideas: a dot for the heavens, a flat line for the earth, an upright line for a person. The dots became the short strokes.
Double consonants
Five tense sounds, written by doubling a plain letter. Said with a tight throat and no puff of air.
Compound vowels
Eleven, each built from two basic vowels written together. ㅗ plus ㅏ makes ㅘ (wa).
Letters on their own are half of it: in Korean they are always written in syllable blocks. The block builder shows how, and the free ten-day Hangul course takes you through all 40 in order.
Printable Hangul chart · the same chart with writing boxes for all 40 letters · writing practice sheets. All free for classroom use.