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Spaces between words in a block script.
Also known as: Korean spacing rule
The Korean convention of spacing between words, adopted comparatively recently and unlike neighbouring scripts.
Separates words in written Korean.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Was introduced through missionary printing in the late nineteenth century and made standard in 1933, which puts Korean on the opposite side of a divide from Chinese and Japanese: all three use a square block grid, and only Korean breaks it with spaces.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
A blank cell width left between groups of syllable blocks, breaking an otherwise continuous run of squares into words.