Double Batchim

We learned this in the Hangul class, but I don’t have these committed to memory yet.

Most Korean syllable blocks have just two or three characters. Two-character blocks always have consonant and vowel. Three-character blocks have character, vowel, and then character on the bottom. There are some select four-character blocks you’ll encounter in this language and you’ll just have to know what to do with them.

In the table below, the first two are tense consonants and the only two of the five tense consonants that can be in the final position of a character block. The others… well… I just have to remember what sound gets made in these syllable blocks if they appear at the end of a word or by themselves.

There are a few things that might help me commit these to memory, especially as I’m approaching this as there being some kind of “privileged” or “winning” consonant that gets sounded out while the other gets muted.

1. ㅎ will never be sounded out in the two double batchim blocks in which it appears. This concerns ㄶ and ㅀ. Be mindful of what ㅎ will do if it’s immediately followed by another syllable block. If that next syllable block begins with any consonant that’s not ㅇ, that consonant gets aspirated. If the ensuing consonant is ㅇ, ㅎ has nothing to aspirate and functionally disappears.
2. Likewise, ㅅ will never be sounded out in a double consonant block. This concerns just two cases: ㅄ and ㄳ. While ㅆ is technically a double consonant block, I don’t think of the tense consonant blocks in this same way and would have no problem committing those cases to memory. It’s the other cases that I neeed to memorize.
3. ㄱ is always privileged in the two cases where it appears (ㄳ, ㄺ).
4. ㄹ is privileged in all but one case in which it appears. That one exception is ㄺ because ㄱ is sounded out in any double batchim block in which it appears. In the five other cases in which it appears (ㄻ, ㄼ, ㄽ, ㄾ, ㄿ, ㅀ), sound out the ㄹ.