Korean Initial Consonant (Chosung) Extractor
Pull just the first consonant from every Hangul character in a Korean sentence
Extracts the leading consonant — the chosung — from each Hangul syllable in Korean text. It's the standard way to build clues for Korean initial-consonant guessing games, and it's equally useful for generating search index keys for Hangul autocomplete.
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How to use
- Enter your Korean words or sentences.
- Adjust the options: keep spaces, keep Latin letters and numbers, and set a separator.
- Copy the extracted initial consonants, which update as you type.
FAQ
- How are double consonants like ㄲ and ㄸ handled?
- By default they're extracted as-is. If you turn on the "simplify double consonants" option, they're reduced to their single forms (ㄱ, ㄷ, and so on) instead.
- Does it still extract initial consonants correctly from sentences mixed with numbers or English?
- Yes — non-Korean characters like numbers, English letters, and symbols can either be kept as-is or removed, depending on your settings, so only the Korean portions of a mixed sentence are accurately converted into their initial consonants.
- Does it still extract initial consonants correctly from sentences mixed with numbers or English?
- Yes — non-Korean characters like numbers, English letters, and symbols can either be kept as-is or removed, depending on your settings, so only the Korean portions of a mixed sentence are accurately converted into their initial consonants.