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- Korean · borrowed from향찰(鄕札)
- English todayhyangchal
Borrowed from Korean 향찰(鄕札) (hyangchal), either Revised Romanization or Yale romanization.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
hyangchal
Today it means: A method of using Chinese characters to write pure ancient Korean texts, used in Sillan hyangka / hyangga poetry. It is similar to the Japanese practice of Man'yōgana. Full definition →
Korean 향찰(鄕札)