생멸

Korean

Etymology

Sino-Korean word from 生滅, from 生 (“emergence”) + 滅 (“destruction”).

Pronunciation
  • (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA(key): [sʰɛŋmjʌ̹ɭ] ~ [sʰe̞ŋmjʌ̹ɭ]
  • Phonetic hangul: [생멸/셍멸]
Romanizations
Revised Romanization?saengmyeol
Revised Romanization (translit.)?saengmyeol
McCune–Reischauer?saengmyŏl
Yale Romanization?sayngmyel

Noun

생멸 • (saengmyeol) (hanja 生滅)

  1. (Buddhism or literary) birth and death; appearance and disappearance; production and annihilation
    삼라만상은 마음의 허깨비라 생멸만을 일삼고 불변치 못 하니라.
    samnamansang-eun ma'eum-ui heokkaebira saengmyeol-man-eul ilsamgo bulbyeonchi mot hanira.
    As all created things are illusions of the mind, they merely appear and are destroyed; they cannot remain constant.
    • 2001, 홍사만 [hongsaman], “어휘 생태계의 역학적 현상 [eohwi saengtaegyeui yeokhakjeok hyeonsang]”, in 새국어생활 [saegugeosaenghwal]‎, volume 11, number 4, National Institute of the Korean Language, pages 110—119:
      동음 경쟁이나 유의 경쟁에서 강자가 살아 남고, 약자가 도태되어 퇴화하는 것은 자연의 철리이다. 어휘들의 생멸은 이처럼 숙명적인 충돌과 경쟁의 결과 얻어지는 산물이라고 할 수 있다.
      Dong'eum gyeongjaeng-ina yuui gyeongjaeng-eseo gangja-ga sara namgo, yakja-ga dotaedoeeo toehwahaneun geos-eun jayeon-ui cheolli-ida. Eohwi-deur-ui saengmyeor-eun icheoreom sungmyeongjeog-in chungdol-gwa gyeongjaeng-ui gyeolgwa eodeojineun sanmur-i-rago hal su itda.
      It is a profound principle of nature that the strong survive, and the weak are displaced and die away, in competitions [between words in a language] of homophony or synonymy. The appearance and disappearance of words may be said to be the outcome of such inescapable conflicts and competition.

Derived terms
  • 생멸(生滅)하다 (saengmyeolhada, “to be born and die; to appear and disappear”)
  • 생멸심(生滅心) (saengmyeolsim, “variable, shifting mind of unenlightened beings (Buddhism)”)
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