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Why is the romanization of 이하이, Lee Hi? Please help.
Dear reader could you please help me.
I have got the romanization of 이하이 from a K-pop MV:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AI7UP1iRAU&list=PL37A65FDB2C0123A7
But where is the L in the Hangul? I would read the Hangul as:
i-h-ai. So in English something like 'ee hi'. Not 'Lee hi'.
What Am I missing here? Thanks in advance for your help.
I have got the romanization of 이하이 from a K-pop MV:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AI7UP1iRAU&list=PL37A65FDB2C0123A7
But where is the L in the Hangul? I would read the Hangul as:
i-h-ai. So in English something like 'ee hi'. Not 'Lee hi'.
What Am I missing here? Thanks in advance for your help.
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Her family name is 이, which is 李 in Chinese character (many korean names have Chinese character behind it. because it started before we have our own letter, Hangul)
The same letter can be pronounced as '리' depending on the position of it.
But when it comes at the first in the word, we sometimes change ㄹ to ㅇ.
We call it '두음법칙'.
so many koreans with the family name '이' write their name as 'Lee' in English
because it is originally from '리'.
The same letter can be pronounced as '리' depending on the position of it.
But when it comes at the first in the word, we sometimes change ㄹ to ㅇ.
We call it '두음법칙'.
so many koreans with the family name '이' write their name as 'Lee' in English
because it is originally from '리'.
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