وَلَقَدْ왈라까드 خَلَقْنَا칼라끄날 الْإِنْسَانَ인사나 مِنْ민 صَلْصَالٍ살살림 مِنْ민 حَمَإٍ하마임 مَسْنُونٍ마스눈
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왈라까드 칼라끄날 인사나 민 살살림 민 하마임 마스눈
우리는 인간을 빚어낸 검은 진흙으로 된, 마르면 소리가 나는 찰흙으로 창조하였다.
We created man from dry ringing clay, from moulded dark mud.
How to read the Hangul
الرَّحْمَٰنِ르r라흐마니 بِسْمِ비스밀
- Bold = the stressed syllable of the word; a little stronger.
- Overline = long vowel (madd): hold it about two beats. Length matters most in recitation.
- Tiny = no vowel in the Arabic here — just the consonant, short.
- Small Latin letter = a sound Korean lacks, on the next syllable: f upper teeth on lower lip · θ/ð tongue tip between the teeth · r rolled tongue tip (a bare ㄹ is l).
How to read the Hangul
beginning the Christ salvation
- Bold, larger (ˈ) = say it strong and a little longer — the stressed syllable.
- Faint = weak and short (a reduced vowel). Don't give every syllable equal weight.
- Tiny 으 · 트 · 스 = barely voiced. English has no vowel there — stop on the consonant.
- Whole word faint (the, of, and, to…) = light and quick in a sentence; stress the content words.
- Small f v θ ð r = sounds Korean doesn't have — f: upper teeth on the lower lip; v: the same, voiced; θ/ð: tongue tip between the teeth; r: tongue curled back, touching nothing.