절

Cognate with Korean 결 (gyeol).

• (Morphophonemic) IPA^(key): ⫽t͡ɕəl⫽
• (Jeju City) IPA^(key): [t͡ɕəɭ]
• Phonetic hangul: [절]

절 (jeol)

1. wave

• 놀 (nol)
• 노대 (nodae)

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

Sino-Korean word from 節.

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [t͡ɕʌ̹ɭ]
• Phonetic hangul: [절]

절 • (jeol) (hanja 節)

1. a verse, passage, paragraph
2. (grammar) clause

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

First attested in the Worin cheon'gangjigok (月印千江之曲 / 월인천강지곡), 1449, as Middle Korean 절〮 (Yale: cyél).

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [t͡ɕʌ̹ɭ]
• Phonetic hangul: [절]

절 • (jeol)

1. bow; greeting

   부모님께 절을 올리다 ― bumonim-kke jeor-eul ollida ― to bow to one's parents

• 맞절 (matjeol)
• 절하다 (jeolhada)
• 큰절 (keunjeol)

First attested in the Hunminjeong'eum haerye (訓民正音解例 / 훈민정음해례), 1446, as Middle Korean 뎔〮 (Yale: tyél).

Possibly from Middle Chinese 剎 (MC tsrhaet), abbreviation of 剎多羅 (MC tsrhaet ta la), ultimately borrowed from Sanskrit क्षेत्र (kṣetra). Cognate with Japanese 寺 (tera, “Buddhist temple”), which is thought to be a borrowing from an ancient Koreanic language. (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [t͡ɕʌ̹ɭ]
• Phonetic hangul: [절]

절 • (jeol)

1. Buddhist monastery / temple

   Synonym: 사찰(寺刹) (sachal)

   절을 찾아 마음을 수양해야겠다. ― Jeor-eul chaja ma'eum-eul suyanghaeyagetda. ― I've got to find a temple to cultivate my soul.

• 절에 가면 중이 되라 (jeore gamyeon jung'i doera)

• 절간 (jeolgan)
• 절당 (jeoldang)

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [t͡ɕʌ̹ɭ]
• Phonetic hangul: [절]

절 • (jeol)

1. (colloquial) alternative form of 저를 (jeo-reul, “me”, first-person singular polite pronoun used as a direct object)

Preserves the Old Korean form as suggested in Jīlín lèishì; see Korean 저 (jeo) for more.

절 • (jeol)

1. (dialectal, Gangwon, Chungcheong, Gyeongsang) chopsticks

   Synonym: (standard South Korean) 젓가락 (jeotgarak)

절 • (jeol)

1. Future adnominal of 절다 (jeolda)

Korean reading of various Chinese characters.

절 • (jeol)