/lw-korean

The Korean language layer for lyric writing (韩文词的音节与받침). One hangul block is one syllable is one note by default - unlike Japanese, a final consonant takes no beat of its own. The batchim (받침, syllable-final consonant) is the subject here: single and double batchim, the seven representative finals, and why a syllable closing on a stop is the wrong place for a long note, a phrase-end hold or a section peak. Liaison (연음) moves a batchim onto the next block, so the sung syllable boundary is not the written one, which moves every breath, caesura and rhyme landing. Plus the sound changes that rewrite a line between paper and voice (nasalization, tensification, aspiration, palatalization, elision, insertion, vowel harmony); why Korean has no tone and no word stress; how Korean rhyme differs from the Mandarin che. Use when writing or checking Korean lyrics, fitting hangul to a melody, counting syllables, or picking a word for a held note. 韩文作词、韩语歌词、받침、收音、连音、音变、音节数、K-pop 填词。