심

Cognate with Korean 힘 (him).

• (Morphophonemic) IPA^(key): ⫽sim⫽
• (Jeju City) IPA^(key): [ɕʰim]
• Phonetic hangul: [심]

심 (sim)

1. strength; power

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

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [ɕʰim]
• Phonetic hangul: [심]

Sino-Korean word from 心 (“heart”). Compare Chinese 芯 (xīn, “pith; wick; core”), Japanese 芯(しん) (shin, “pith; wick; core”).

심 • (sim) (hanja 心)

1. internal object crucial to something functioning:
   1. core of a pencil; lead

      연필 심 ― yeonpil sim ― pencil core

   2. staple of a stapler

      스테이플러 심 ― seuteipeulleo sim ― stapler staple

   3. pith (of a tree, a plant)

      배추의 심 ― baechu-ui sim ― core of a cabbage

   4. (medicine) tent (linen roll applied to wounds)
   5. wick (of a lamp, a candle)

      Synonym: 심지 (simji)

   6. pad, padding (in clothing)

—심 • (-sim) (hanja 心)

1. emotion, mind

   애국심 ― aeguksim ― patriotism

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

Perhaps shifted from 삼 (蔘, sam, “ginseng”).

심 • (sim)

1. (ginseng-harvesters' cant) ginseng

   심 봤다! ― sim bwatda! ― I hit the jackpot! (literally, “I saw ginseng!”)

심 • (sim)

1. Gyeongsang and Gangwon form of 힘 (him, “strength”)
   • 1883, 아메노모리 호슈(雨森芳洲) [Amenomori Hōshū], “凡例”, in 浦瀬裕, editor, 재간교린수지(再刊交隣須知) (Jaegan'gyorinsuji)‎^{NDL NLK}, 外務省 edition, volume 1:

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     […] mattaki o aju chikara o sim nimgeum o ingun […]

Modern Korean reading of various Chinese characters.

심 • (sim)