이화우

Korean

Sino-Korean word from 梨花 (“pear blossom”) + 雨 (“rain”).

Revised Romanization^?	ihwau
Revised Romanization (translit.)^?	ihwau
McCune–Reischauer^?	ihwau
Yale Romanization^?	ihwawu

이화우 • (ihwau) (hanja 梨花雨)

(poetic) a shower of pear blossoms, scattered by the wind
- c. 1790, 樂學拾零 (Akhak Seumnyeong) [Tidbits of the Musical Sciences]:
  梨花雨홋ᄲᅮ릴제울며잡고離別ᄒᆞᆫ님 / 秋風落葉에져도날生覺ᄂᆞᆫ가
  Ihwau hotppuril je ulmyeo japgo ibyeol-han nim / Chupung nagyeobe jyeodo nal saenggak-neunga
  In the pear-petal rain, weeping, clutching, my love whom I bid farewell / By the leaves that fall to this autumn wind, does he remember me too?