ㅎ Rules & Assimilation

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Chapter 3 of 4Page 1 of 8

ㅎ has a few tricks. The first is that it disappears before vowels.

When ㅎ batchim meets ㅇ, the ㅎ vanishes. The vowel connects directly to the previous syllable!

ㅎ vanishes before vowels:

[조아] – ㅎ disappears [노아] – ㅎ disappears [나아] – ㅎ disappears

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