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

See main entry at 씰 (ssil).

• (Morphophonemic) IPA^(key): ⫽sil⫽
• (Jeju City) IPA^(key): [ɕʰiɭ]
• Phonetic hangul: [실]

Romanizations
Revised Romanization?	sil
Revised Romanization (translit.)?	sil
Yale Romanization?	sil

실 (sil)

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

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

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.

• (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.

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

• (Gyeongsang, Harbin) 씰 (ssil)

Sino-Korean word from 失.

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [ɕʰiɭ]
• Phonetic hangul: [실]

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

실 • (sil) (hanja 失)

1. loss

   Antonym: 득(得) (deuk, “gain”)

• See the hanja entry at 失 for Sino-Korean compounds of 실 (失, sil).

Sino-Korean word from 室.

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [ɕʰiɭ]
• Phonetic hangul: [실]

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

실 • (sil) (hanja 室)

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

실 • (sil) (hanja 室)

1. Used to count the number of rooms

Borrowed from English seal.

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [ɕ͈iɭ]
• Phonetic hangul: [씰]

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

실 • (sil)

1. paper seal

Korean reading of various Chinese characters.

실 (sil)

• 《우리말샘》 [1]

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

From Old Korean 糸利 (*SIli).

• IPA^(key): /sǐl/

실〯 (sǐl)

1. thread, string

• Korean: 실 (sil)