Gugyeol, or kwukyel, is a system for rendering texts written in Classical Chinese into understandable Korean. It was used chiefly during the Joseon dynasty...

or classical Chinese along with invented phonetic scripts like as Idu, Gugyeol and Hyangchal. Later, written Chinese characters adapted to the Korean...

passages written in Korean word order. This would later develop into the gugyeol (구결; 口訣) or 'separated phrases,' system. Chinese texts were broken into...

hyangchal, the local writing system used to write vernacular poetry and gugyeol writing. Its narrow sense only refers to idu proper or the system developed...

 China  Japan  Palau Family Koreanic Japonic Writing Hangul, Hanja (South Korea), Idu, Gugyeol, Hyangchal (formerly) Kana, Kanji, Man'yōgana (formerly)...

predate Hangul by hundreds of years, including Idu script, Hyangchal, Gugyeol and Gakpil. However, many lower class uneducated Koreans were illiterate...

known as gugyeol, used punctuation to interpret Chinese characters in a way Korean speakers could understand. One of the marks used in gugyeol was a dot...

also possible. Japanese phonology Hiragana Historical kana usage Rōmaji Gugyeol Tōdaiji Fujumonkō, oldest example of kanji text with katakana annotations...

phased out once it became too impractical upon the invention of Hangeul. Gugyeol was used to gloss Middle Chinese poems so Koreans could read them, with...

interpretive gugyeol, where the glosses provide enough information to read the Chinese text in the Korean vernacular, and later consecutive gugyeol, which is...