금

Sino-Korean word from 金.

• (Morphophonemic) IPA^(key): ⫽kɨm⫽
• (Jeju City) IPA^(key): [kɨm]
• Phonetic hangul: [금]

금 (geum)

1. gold
2. price

   Synonym: 깞 (kkap)

• “금” in Jeju's culture and language, Digital museum.

Sino-Korean word from 金 (“gold”), from the Middle Korean reading 금 (Yale: kùm).

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [kɯm]
• Phonetic hangul: [금]

• South Gyeongsang (Busan) pitch accent: 금의 / 금에 / 금까지

  Syllables in red take high pitch. This word takes low pitch only before consonant-initial multisyllabic suffixes.

금 • (geum) (hanja 金)

1. gold (Au) (in general and as an element); golden...

   시간은 금이다. (aphorism)

   Sigan-eun geumida.

   Time is money.

   (literally, “Time is gold.”)

2. amount of money (written before the amount)

   금 ______ 원 ― geum ______ won ― amount: ______ won

3. short for 금요일(金曜日) (geumyoil, “Friday”)

• See the hanja entry at 金 for Sino-Korean compounds of (金, geum).

—금 • (-geum) (hanja 金)

1. money

   ‎등록(登錄) (deungnok, “enrollment”) + ‎금(金) (geum, “money”) → ‎등록금(登錄金) (deungnokgeum, “tuition”)

• Korean terms suffixed with -금 (金)

  기부금

  장려금

  포상금

First attested in the Worin seokbo (月印釋譜 / 월인석보), 1459, as Middle Korean 금〮 (Yale: kúm).

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [kɯm]
• Phonetic hangul: [금]

금 • (geum)

1. crack, fissure, fracture

   금이 가다 ― geum-i gada ― to crack

Korean reading of various Chinese characters.

금 • (geum)