How to Use the Korean Chosung Extractor
Paste a list of Korean names, contacts, or product names, and this tool pulls out the initial consonant (chosung: ㄱ, ㄴ, ㄷ...) of every Hangul syllable. Type a chosung query and only the lines whose chosung contains that pattern are kept, making it easy to search a name list the way Korean chosung-search features do. All 19 initial consonants, including doubled ones like ㄲ, ㄸ, ㅃ, ㅆ, and ㅉ, are recognized precisely, and any non-Hangul characters (letters, numbers, spaces) are left untouched.
Useful for
- Building a chosung search index for a contact list
- Preprocessing data for a chosung autocomplete feature
- Filtering similar Korean names or product names by initial consonant
- Generating a chosung column for spreadsheet sorting
Frequently Asked Questions
Type Korean consonants (e.g. ㄱ, ㄷ) directly into the search field to filter lines whose chosung contains that pattern.
Yes, non-Hangul characters such as letters, numbers, and spaces are kept as-is; only Korean syllables are converted.
Yes, all 19 Korean initial consonants, including doubled ones, are recognized accurately.