성독
Korean
Etymology 1
Sino-Korean word from 聲讀 (“reading with sound”).
Examples |
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Excerpt from cantillation of 漁父辭, The Fisherman: 屈原이 曰, 擧世皆濁이어날 我獨淸하고 衆人이 皆醉어늘 我獨醒이라. Gul Won (Qu Yuan) said, "The whole world is murky, and I alone am clear; everyone is drunk, and I alone am sober." |
Pronunciation
- (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA(key): [sʰʌ̹ŋdo̞k̚]
- Phonetic hangul: [성독]
Romanizations | |
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Revised Romanization? | seongdok |
Revised Romanization (translit.)? | seongdog |
McCune–Reischauer? | sŏngdok |
Yale Romanization? | sengtok |
Noun
성독 • (seongdok) (hanja 聲讀)
- traditional Korean method of cantillating Literary Chinese, which adds 현토 (懸吐, hyeonto, “Korean grammatical particles”) in natural breaks in the text to aid comprehension while retaining the Sinitic vocabulary and word order
Etymology 2
Sino-Korean word from 聖讀 (“holy reading”).
Pronunciation
- (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA(key): [ˈsʰɘ(ː)ŋdo̞k̚]
- Phonetic hangul: [성(ː)독]
- Though still prescribed in Standard Korean, most speakers in both Koreas no longer distinguish vowel length.
Romanizations | |
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Revised Romanization? | seongdok |
Revised Romanization (translit.)? | seongdog |
McCune–Reischauer? | sŏngdok |
Yale Romanization? | sēngtok |
Noun
성독 • (seongdok) (hanja 聖讀)
- (Christianity) Lectio Divina (monastic method of scripture-reading)