칠전팔기

Korean

Etymology

Sino-Korean word from 七轉八起 (“tumbling seven times, standing up eight times”), orthographic borrowing from Japanese 七(しち)転(てん)八(はっ)起(き) (shichitenhakki).

Pronunciation

(SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [t͡ɕʰiʎd͡ʑʌ̹npʰa̠ɭɡi]
Phonetic hangul: [칠전팔기]

Romanizations
Revised Romanization^?	chiljeonpalgi
Revised Romanization (translit.)^?	chiljeonpalgi
McCune–Reischauer^?	ch'iljŏnp'algi
Yale Romanization^?	chilcenphalki

Noun

칠전팔기 • (chiljeonpalgi) (hanja 七轉八起)

(set phrase from Classical Chinese) "tumbling seven times and standing up eight times"; persevering despite repeated failures

Derived terms

칠전팔기(七轉八起)하다 (chiljeonpalgihada)