Korean Taekwondo Vocabulary
Learn a little bit of hangeul and some Korean vocabulary related to taekwondo.

The solid and broken bars in the eight image tiles in the top navigation are called trigrams. Each trigram represents a particular natural phenomena. If you click on a trigram, it will take you to the corresponding taekwondo form page. Each form has a trigram which I describe scientifically and call scigrams. The tangram animation in the middle of the trigram tiles is supposed to represent a kicking woman. A tangram is a puzzle which originated in China. It is created out of seven flat polygons that can be put together to form shapes.

According to the wiki, Hangul was designed so that even a commoner could learn to read and write; the Haerye says "A wise man can acquaint himself with them before the morning is over; a stupid man can learn them in the space of ten days." How long will it take you to learn just enough Hangul to complete this crossword?

In order to solve the crossword on this page, you have to learn just enough Hangul to put ten words into the crossword in Hangul characters (i.e.,without transliteration). All of the words can be found on this website. The words are:




single knife hand한손날han sonnal
uniform도복tobuk
martial arts school도장dojang
spear hand손끝sonkkut
block막기makki
no아니요anio
return바로parot
high아래arae
palm-heel바탕손patangson
stance서기sogi



To solve the crossword just drag and drop the hangeul syllables from the righthand side of the page onto the crossword cells.




ACROSS
1. anio
2. patangson
3. han sonnal
6. do buk
7. sogi
DOWN
1. arae
2. parot
4. son kkut
5. mag ki
6. dojang

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