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• Corean (obsolete)

語源

From Korea +‎ -an.

発音

• (General American) IPA: /kəˈɹi.ən/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /kəˈɹiːən/
• 韻: -iːən

形容詞

Korean (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to the Asian Peninsula comprising North Korea and South Korea.
   • 2013 July 18, Claire Lee, “Popular TV drama revisited onstage”, in The Korea Herald‎:

     The show’s stage design features bojagi, traditional Korean patchwork. The audience members are also presented with Korean traditional dance, including buchaechum, or “fan dance,” performed by a group of female dancers using fans painted in different colors.

2. Of or relating to the Korean language.

派生語

固有名詞

Korean

1. (uncountable) Official language of the people residing on the Korean Peninsula, and language of approximately 60 million people, in Asia, North America, and elsewhere.

名詞

Korean (plural Koreans)

1. (countable) A person of an ethnic group indigenous to the Korean Peninsula.
   • 1995, K. Connie Kang, Home Was the Land of Morning Calm‎, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 32:

     The legacy of the Korean independence movement remains today: nearly two million ethnic Koreans live in China, half of them in the Yenpien Korean Autonomous District in southeast Manchuria.

   • 2023 June 26, Jun Ji-hye, “Korea's age system to change from Wednesday”, in The Korea Times‎, archived from the original on 9 October 2024:

     All Koreans to become one or even two years younger under int'l system

関連する語

• Proto-Koreanic
• Old Korean
• Middle Korean
• Early Modern Korean
• Modern Korean

参考

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Korean terms
• Appendix:Korean Swadesh list for a Swadesh list of basic vocabulary words in Korean

Further reading

• ISO 639-1 code ko, ISO 639-3 code kor (SIL)
• Ethnologue entry for Korean, kor ⁠