Choi Sejin
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| Choi Sejin | |
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| Hangul: |
최세진
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| Hanja: |
崔世珍
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| Revised Romanization: | Choe Se(-)jin |
| McCune-Reischauer: | Ch'oe Sejin |
Choi Sejin (1473–1542) was a Korean linguist, educator, and a proponent of Hangul. His courtesy name was Gongseo (공서; 公瑞).
Choi devised the modern order of the Hangul letters, and assigned names to the letters. His most famous book on Hangul is the Hunmong Jahoe (훈몽자회; 訓蒙字會 "Collection of Characters for Training the Unenlightened (= Kids)", 1527).
Choi was an official interpreter in the Korean embassies in Beijing, so he also documented colloquial northern Chinese languages (Haner).
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