시혜
Korean
Etymology
Sino-Korean word from 施惠.
Pronunciation
- (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA(key): [ˈɕʰi(ː)ʝje̞] ~ [ˈɕʰi(ː)ɦe̞]
- Phonetic hangul: [시(ː)혜/시(ː)헤]
- Though still prescriptive in Standard Korean, the great majority of speakers (in both Koreas) no longer distinguish vowel length.
| Romanizations | |
|---|---|
| Revised Romanization? | sihye |
| Revised Romanization (translit.)? | sihye |
| McCune–Reischauer? | sihye |
| Yale Romanization? | sīhyey |
Noun
시혜 • (sihye) (hanja 施惠)
- generosity; charity; the dispensing of generosity or charity
- c. 1900, anonymous, ᄉᆞᆷᄒᆞᆫ가 [Song of Three Sorrows]:
- ᄒᆞᄒᆡ갓치 널분 덕ᄐᆡᆨ 시ᄒᆡᄒᆞ기 힘을 쎠쎠 […]
- hahaegatchi neolbun deoktaek sihaehagi himeul ssyeossyeo […]
- [By] her kindness, as wide as the river and sea, she exerted her strength in dispensing charity […]
- 2014, 진은영, “우리의 연민은 정오의 그림차처럼 짧고, 우리의 수치심은 자정의 그림자처럼 길다”, in 눈먼 자들의 국가 [The Country of the Blind], Munhak dongne, →ISBN, page 75:
- 시혜는 강자가 약자에게 제공하는 것으로 불평등한 관계를 전제할 때만 가능한 활동이다. 시혜와 평등은 완벽하게 대립한다.
- Sihye-neun gangja-ga yakja-ege jegonghaneun geos-euro bulpyeongdeunghan gwangye-reul jeonjehal ttae-man ganeunghan hwaldong'ida. Sihye-wa pyeongdeung-'eun wanbyeokhage daeriphanda.
- Charity is given by the strong to the weak, an activity possible only by presupposing a relationship of inequality. Charity and equality are diametrically opposed.
Derived terms
- 시혜(施惠)하다 (sihyehada)
- 시혜적(施惠的) (sihyejeok)