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한자 및 어휘 Hanja and Vocabularies

한자   Memorizing Vocabularies through Hanja I found a great way to memorize vocabularies. It is through  Hanja 한자  not exactly about Chinese characters but about their meaning Most of the Korean vocabularies are influenced by Hanja, so knowing a great amount of Hanja is pretty useful in learning Korean. If you know well enough you would be able to atleast guess what a word means correctly. I can't explain it well so I'll give examples how it will be easy to memorize vocabularies with Hanja. Each Hanja characters have meanings, if you know what they mean it will be probably easy to guess what a word means for example: 학 (學)  = 배우다/공부하다 (To learn/Study) Words that it can build: 학 교(學校)  = School 학 습(學習) = Learning/Study (Korean study 한국어 학습) 학 자(學者) = Scholar 학 원(學院) = Academy As you can see they all have 학 and they are all connected to studying and learning. now we can take the second 한자 from "학교(學校) = School " and learn new sets for wo...