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   2 hours ago · The Han Chinese or Han people [b] are an East Asian ethnic group native to Greater China. They are the world's largest ethnic group, making up about 17.5% of the global population . The Han Chinese are the largest ethnic group in China — including mainland China, Hong Kong, and Macau — with a global population of over 1.4 billion.

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   Why did King Sejong create the Korean alphabet?

   • The Korean alphabet was designed so that people with little education could learn to read and write. According to the Hunminjeongeum Haerye Edition, King Sejong expressed his intention to understand the language of the people in this country and to express their meanings more conveniently in writing.

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   Did King Sejong invent the world's best alphabet?

   • Former professor of Leiden University Frits Vos stated that King Sejong "invented the world's best alphabet," adding, "It is clear that the Korean alphabet is not only simple and logical, but has, moreover, been constructed in a purely scientific way." Numerous obsolete Korean letters and sequences are no longer used in Korean.

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   Who invented morphophonemic orthography?

   • The Hangul Society, founded by Ju Si-gyeong, announced a proposal for a new, strongly morphophonemic orthography in 1933, which became the prototype of the contemporary orthographies in both North and South Korea. After Korea was divided, the North and South revised orthographies separately.

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   Where did the word China come from?

   • This dynasty, sometimes phonetically spelt as the "Ch'in dynasty", has been proposed in the 17th century by Martino Martini and supported by later scholars such as Paul Pelliot and Berthold Laufer to be the etymological origin of the modern English word "China". The reign of the first imperial dynasty was to be short-lived.

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   1 day ago · The word "Hangul" and the basic jamo of the Korean alphabet. The Korean alphabet was originally named Hunminjeong'eum (훈민정음) by King Sejong the Great in 1443. Hunminjeong'eum is also the document that explained logic and science behind the script in 1446. The name hangeul (한글) was coined by Korean linguist Ju Si-gyeong in 1912.