ㆆ

Pronunciation

• IPA: /◌͈/

Letter

ㆆ

1. (linguistics) In contemporary Korean dialectology, used to represent an archiphoneme which tenses the subsequent consonant.
2. (obsolete) Used for the same purpose in New Korean Orthography, a brief-lived (1948—1954) spelling reform in North Korea.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ʔ/ (in Chinese transcription)
• IPA: /◌͈/ (in native Korean)

Letter

ㆆ (q)

1. Transcribes [ʔ] in Chinese. This was not a sound in Middle Korean.
2. Used to represent an archiphoneme which tenses the subsequent consonant.