실

실 U+C2E4, 실
HANGUL SYLLABLE SIL
Composition:ㅅ + ㅣ + ㄹ
← 싣
[U+C2E3] 		Hangul Syllables 싥 →
[U+C2E5]
시식싞싟신싡싢
싣실싥싦싧싨싩
싪싫심십싮싯싰
싱싲싳싴싵싶싷
싀 ←→ 싸

Jeju

Etymology

See main entry at 씰 (ssil).

Pronunciation
  • (Morphophonemic) IPA(key): ⫽sil⫽
  • (Jeju City) IPA(key): [ɕʰiɭ]
  • Phonetic hangul: [실]
Romanizations
Revised Romanization?sil
Revised Romanization (translit.)?sil
Yale Romanization?sil

Noun

실 (sil)

  1. Alternative form of 씰 (ssil, “thread, string”)

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

Korean

Etymology 1

First attested in the Hunminjeong'eum haerye (訓民正音解例 / 훈민정음해례), 1446, as Middle Korean 실〯 (Yale: sǐl), from disyllabic Old Korean 糸利 (*SIli) attested as an element in a sixth-century personal name.[1] Cognate with Jeju 씰 (ssil).

Possibly an ancient pre-Sino-Korean borrowing from Old Chinese 絲 (OC *slɯ, “silk”).[2] If so, related to Ancient Greek Σήρ (Sḗr, “China”), English silk.

Pronunciation
  • (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA(key): [ɕʰi(ː)ɭ]
  • Phonetic hangul: [실(ː)]
    • Though still prescribed in Standard Korean, most speakers in both Koreas no longer distinguish vowel length.
Romanizations
Revised Romanization?sil
Revised Romanization (translit.)?sil
McCune–Reischauer?sil
Yale Romanization?sīl
  • South Gyeongsang (Busan) pitch accent: 실의 / 실에 / 실까지

    Syllables in red take high pitch. This word always takes low pitch, and heightens the pitch of two subsequent suffixed syllables.

Noun

실 • (sil)

  1. thread, yarn, string
    실을 감다 ― sir-eul gamda ― to wind thread
    실이 엉키다 ― sir-i eongkida ― For strings to be entangled
    실을 바늘에 꿰다 ― sir-eul baneur-e kkweda ― To thread a needle (with a thread).
    실 다섯 타래 ― sil daseot tarae ― five skeins of thread
    어제 실로 참 예쁜 양말을 꿰맸어요.
    Eoje sillo cham yeppeun yangmar-eul kkwemaesseoyo.
    Yesterday, I sewed together really pretty socks with string.
  2. (figurative) a narrow thing, a thin object
Alternative forms
  • (Gyeongsang, Harbin) 씰 (ssil)
Derived terms
  • 실 가는 데 바늘도 간다 (sil ganeun de baneuldo ganda, “Wherever a thread goes, a needle follows”)
  • 실 엉킨 것은 풀어도 노 엉킨 것은 못 푼다 (sil eongkin geoseun pureodo no eongkin geoseun mot punda, “While small problems can easily be solved, bigger problems may be much more difficult”)
  • 실 한 오리 안 걸치다 (sil han ori an geolchida, “to get completely naked”)
  • 실고기 (silgogi, “pipefish”)
  • 실눈 (sillun, “half-shut eye”)
  • 실마리 (silmari, “beginning of a thread; clue”)
  • 실바람 (silbaram, “wisp of wind, breeze”)
  • 실반대 (silbandae, “coil of cotton”)
  • 실밥 (silbap, “bits of thread”)
  • 실뱀 (silbaem, “thin snake”)
  • 실뱅어 (silbaeng'eo, “short icefish”)
  • 실에 꿴 바늘 따라오듯 (sire kkwen baneul ttaraodeut, “Like following a needle on a thread”)
  • 실이 와야 바늘이 가지 (siri waya baneuri gaji, “one must give in order to receive”)
  • 실톱 (siltop, “fretsaw”)
  • 치실 (chisil, “dental floss”)

Etymology 2

Sino-Korean word from 失.

Pronunciation
Romanizations
Revised Romanization?sil
Revised Romanization (translit.)?sil
McCune–Reischauer?sil
Yale Romanization?sil

Noun

실 • (sil) (hanja 失)

  1. loss
    Antonym: 득(得) (deuk, “gain”)
Derived terms

Etymology 3

Sino-Korean word from 室.

Pronunciation
Romanizations
Revised Romanization?sil
Revised Romanization (translit.)?sil
McCune–Reischauer?sil
Yale Romanization?sil

Noun

실 • (sil) (hanja 室)

  1. work division, department (generally higher than a 과 (gwa) or 부 (bu))

Counter

실 • (sil) (hanja 室)

  1. Used to count the number of rooms

Etymology 4

Borrowed from English seal.

Pronunciation
Romanizations
Revised Romanization?sil
Revised Romanization (translit.)?sil
McCune–Reischauer?ssil
Yale Romanization?qsil

Noun

실 • (sil)

  1. paper seal

Etymology 5

Korean reading of various Chinese characters.

Syllable

실 (sil)

Extended content
  1. 失: loss
    (eumhun reading: 잃을 실 (ireul sil))
    (MC reading: 失 (MC syit))
  2. 室: room
    (eumhun reading: 집 실 (jip sil))
    (MC reading: 室 (MC syit))
  3. 實: reality; truth
    (eumhun reading: 열매 실 (yeolmae sil))
    (MC reading: 實 (MC zyit))

References
  1. 이승재 [iseungjae] (2017) 木(목)簡(간)에 기록된 古(고)代(대)韓(한)國(국)語(어) [The Old Korean Language Inscribed on Wooden Tablets], Ilchogak, →ISBN, page 306
  2. Edwin G. Pulleyblank (2011) Middle Chinese: A Study in Historical Phonology, University of British Columbia Press, →ISBN, page 26
  • 《우리말샘》

Further reading
  • Martin, Samuel E., Yang Ha Lee, Sung-Un Chang (1975) A Korean-English Dictionary, New Haven: Yale University Press, page 1055.

Middle Korean

Etymology

From Old Korean 糸利 (*SIli).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /sǐl/

Noun

실〯 (sǐl)

  1. thread, string

Descendants
  • Korean: 실 (sil)
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