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김 is a Korean hangul character, which can be romanized as Gim or Kim, it may refer to:
김 is a Korean hangul character, which can be romanized as Gim or Kim, it may refer to:
Hunminjeongeum is a 15th-century manuscript that introduced the Korean script Hangul. The name of the manuscript was also the original name of the script.
Hanja, alternatively known as Hancha, are Chinese characters used to write the Korean language. After characters were introduced to Korea to write Literary Chinese, they were adapted to write Korean as early as the Gojoseon period.
A Korean name in the modern era typically consists of a surname followed by a given name, with no middle names. A number of Korean terms for names exist. For full names, seongmyeong, seongham, or ireum (이름) are commonly used. When a Korean name is written in Hangul, there is no space between the surname and the given name.
An art name, also known by its native names hào, gō, ho, and tên hiệu, is a professional name used by East Asian artists, poets and writers. The word and the concept originated in China, where it was used as nicknames for the educated, then became popular in other East Asian countries.
Kim is the most common surname in Korea. As of the 2015 South Korean census, there were 10,689,959 people by this name in South Korea or 21.5% of the population. Although the surname is always pronounced the same, dozens of different family clans use it. The clan system in Korea is unique from the surname systems of other countries. Kim is written as 김 in both North and South Korea. The hanja for Kim, 金, can also be transliterated as 금 which means 'gold, metal, iron'. While romanized as Kim by 99.3% of the population, other rare variant romanizations such as Gim, Ghim, and Kin make up the remaining 0.7%.
Geumgwan Gaya (43–532), also known as Bon-Gaya or Garakguk, was the ruling city-state of the Gaya confederacy during the Three Kingdoms period in Korea. It is believed to have been located around the modern-day city of Gimhae, Southern Gyeongsang province, near the mouth of the Nakdong River. Due to its geographic location, this kingdom played a dominant role in the regional affairs from the Byeonhan period onward to the end of the Gaya confederacy.
Gimbap, also romanized as kimbap, is a Korean dish made from cooked rice, vegetables, fish, and meat rolled in gim—dried sheets of seaweed—and served in bite-sized slices. The origins of gimbap are debated. Some sources suggest it originates from Japanese norimaki, introduced during Japanese colonial rule, while others argue it is a modernized version of bokssam from the Joseon era. The dish is often part of a packed meal, or dosirak, to be eaten at picnics and outdoor events, and can serve as a light lunch along with danmuji and kimchi. It is a popular takeaway food in South Korea and abroad and is known as a convenient food because of its portability.
The writing system of the Korean language is a syllabic alphabet of character parts organized into character blocks representing syllables. The character parts cannot be written from left to right on the computer, as in many Western languages. Every possible syllable in Korean would have to be rendered as syllable blocks by a font, or each character part would have to be encoded separately. Unicode has both options; the character parts ㅎ (h) and ㅏ (a), and the combined syllable 하 (ha), are encoded.
Korean calligraphy, also known as Seoye (Korean: 서예), is the Korean tradition of artistic writing. Calligraphy in Korean culture involves both Hanja and Hangul.
GIM or Gim may refer to:
Tteokguk (Korean: 떡국) or sliced rice cake soup is a traditional Korean dish eaten during the celebration of the Korean New Year. The dish consists of the broth/soup (guk) with thinly sliced rice cakes (tteok). Eating tteokguk on New Year's Day is traditionally believed to grant good luck for the year and confer one sal. It is usually garnished with thin julienned cooked eggs, marinated meat, gim (김), and sesame oil (참기름).
Ikuno-ku (生野区) is one of 24 wards of Osaka, Japan.
Kim is a surname with multiple origins.
Gim (Korean: 김), also romanized as kim, is a generic term for a group of edible seaweeds dried to be used as an ingredient in Korean cuisine, consisting of various species in the genera Pyropia and Porphyra, including P. tenera, P. yezoensis, P. suborbiculata, P. pseudolinearis, P. dentata, and P. seriata.
Pak Kyongni or Bak Kyoungli was a prominent South Korean novelist. She was born in Tōei, Keishōnan-dō, Korea, Empire of Japan ; later she lived in Wonju, Gangwon Province. Bak made her literary debut in 1955, with Gyesan. She is, however, most well known for her 20-volume story Toji, an epic saga set on the turbulent history of Korea during 19th and 20th century. It was later adapted into a movie, a television series and an opera. Toji is regarded as one of the greatest contributions to Korean literature.
Kim Eun-jung is the common Roman-alphabet spelling of two different Korean names.
Hoon, also spelled Hun, is a single-syllable masculine Korean given name, as well as a morpheme in many other Korean given names. The meaning differs based on the hanja with which the name is written.
The Drug King is a 2018 South Korean crime drama film written and directed by Woo Min-ho. It stars Song Kang-ho as Lee Doo-sam, an ordinary small-time narcotics dealer who becomes an infamous drug lord in Korea during the 1970s. The film also features Jo Jung-suk as a prosecutor from Seoul who is intent on taking Lee down and Bae Doona as a lobbyist who guides Lee into the upper levels of drug dealing. Other cast members include Kim Dae-myung, Kim So-jin, Lee Hee-joon, Jo Woo-jin and Yoon Je-moon. The film was released on December 19, 2018.
KS X 1002 is a South Korean character set standard established in order to supplement KS X 1001. It consists of a total of 7,649 characters.