manhwa

From Korean 만화(漫畫) (manhwa), from Japanese 漫(まん)画(が) (manga). Doublet of manga and manhua.

manhwa (plural manhwas or manhwa)

1. (comics) A Korean comic.
   • 2004, Christopher Hart, Manhwa Mania: How to Draw Korean Comics, Watson-Guptill Publications, →ISBN, page 7:

     In fact, many manga fans don't realize that their favorite comics — such as Priest, Ragnarock, and Island — are actually Korean manhwa!

   • 2007, Jason Thompson, Manga: The Complete Guide‎, Del Rey, published 2007, →ISBN:

     Since the Korean language reads left to right (unlike Chinese and Japanese), manhwa are printed left to right in the same format as English books.

   • 2008, Mark James Russell, Pop Goes Korea: Behind the Revolution in Movies, Music, and Internet Culture‎, Stone Bridge Press, published 2008, →ISBN:

     As the best Japanese titles were mined, the American companies began to look for alternatives, and Tokyopop's founder Stuart Levy already had a budding interest in Korean manhwa.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:manhwa.

• comic/comics

• manga (“Japanese comic”)
• manhua (“Chinese comic”)
• komku (“Malaysian comic”)

• manhwaga (a manhwa artist/author)

• comic book
• comic strip
• 4-koma

Borrowed from Korean 만화(漫畫) (manhwa). Doublet of manhua.

• IPA^(key): /ma.nwa/, /man.hwa/

• Audio

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manhwa m (plural manhwas)

1. (comics) Korean comics

• Webtoon / BD / bande dessinée / Manga / Coréenne /

• manga
• manhua

From Korean 만화 (manhwa) (漫畫), from Japanese 漫画(まんが) (manga). Doublet of manga and manhua.

• IPA^(key): [ˈman.hwa]
• Hyphenation: man‧hwa

manhwa

1. manhwa, a Korean comic.

   Hypernym: komik

• “manhwa” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.