Hanja Converter
Reads Hanja as Hangul with 두음법칙 applied at word starts, offering every reading of an ambiguous character, and lists the Hanja for each syllable of a Korean word — readings only, no meanings.
Reading Hanja aloud in Korean needs two things a character table alone does not give: which of a character’s several readings applies, and whether 두음법칙 changes it at the start of a word. This applies the rule, and shows you the alternatives where the choice is genuinely ambiguous.
Convert
Reads Hanja as Hangul. 두음법칙 (the initial-sound rule) is applied at the start of a word.
How to use it
Paste Hanja to read it
두음법칙 is applied at word starts — 女子 reads 여자, 男女 reads 남녀, from the same character.
Change a reading the tool guessed
A character with several readings shows the first and lets you pick another. Which one a particular word takes needs a dictionary, and this has readings rather than a dictionary.
Go the other way for a name
Type Hangul and each syllable lists the Hanja that have that reading — the usual reason for opening this page is choosing or checking the characters of a name.
Common questions
Does it show what a character means?
No — readings only. Meanings need a dictionary with senses and usage, and a single gloss per character would mislead more often than it helped.
Where do the readings come from?
The Unicode Unihan database’s kHangul field, covering all 4,888 KS X 1001 Hanja plus the 인명용 한자 set — which is what matters for names.
A character I need is missing.
Rare Hanja outside those sets, and characters only in the Unicode extension blocks, have no Korean reading recorded. Those are also the ones a 가족관계등록부 will not accept for a name.
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