Shin Suk-ju

This is a Korean name; the family name is Shin.

Prime Minister in Joseon Dynasty
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Korean name
Hangul	신숙주
Hanja	申叔舟
Revised Romanization	Sin Sukju
McCune–Reischauer	Sin Sukchu
Pen name
Hangul	희현당 or 보한재
Hanja	希賢堂 or 保閑齋
Revised Romanization	Huihyundang or Bohanjae
McCune–Reischauer	Hŭihyŏndang or Pohanjae
Courtesy name
Hangul	범옹
Hanja	泛翁
Revised Romanization	Beomong
McCune–Reischauer	Pŏmong
Posthumous name
Hangul	문충
Hanja	文忠
Revised Romanization	Munchung
McCune–Reischauer	Munch'ung

Shin Suk-ju (Korean: 신숙주, hanja: 申叔舟; August 2, 1417 – July 23, 1475) was a Korean politician during the Joseon Dynasty. He served as Prime Minister from 1461 to 1466 and again from 1471 to 1475.

Shin was an accomplished polyglot, and was particularly well educated in the Chinese language. He served as a personal linguistic expert to King Sejong, and was intimately involved in the creation and application of the Korean alphabet known in modern times as Hangul. Sin used the newly created hangul system to create an accurate transcription of spoken Mandarin Chinese in 15th century Ming dynasty China. These transcriptions haven proven accurate and reliable, and his transcriptions are now "an invaluable source of information on the pronunciations of Ming-era [Mandarin]."

See also

• Han Myung-hoi
• Jeong In-ji
• Kwon Ram
• Hong Yun-sung
• Hong Dal-son

References

Footnotes

Works Cited

• Handel, Zev (2014). "Why Did Sin Sukju Transcribe the Coda of the Yào 藥 Rime of 15th Century Guānhuà with the Letter ㅸ <f>?". Studies in Chinese and Sino-Tibetan Linguistics: Dialect, Phonology, Transcription and Text, eds. Richard VanNess Simmons, Newell Ann Van Auken. Language and Linguistics Monograph Series 53. Taipei: Academia Sinica, pp. 293–308.

External links

• Shin Suk-ju (Korean)
• Shin Suk-ju:britannica (Korean)
• Shin Suk-ju:Nate (Korean)