음훈

Korean

Examples
  • 人, 사람 인 (saram in, literally “person-in”)
  • 法, 법 법 (beop beop, literally “law-beop”)
    • 법 (beop) means “law”; it is the 훈(訓) (hun, “interpretation”). Note that 법 (beop) is a Sino-Korean word, its origin being precisely the character 法.
    • 법 (beop) is the Sino-Korean pronunciation of the Chinese character 法 (“law”); it is the 음(音) (eum, “pronunciation”).

Etymology

Sino-Korean word from 音訓, from 音 (“sound; pronunciation”) + 訓 (“interpretation”)

Pronunciation

Romanizations
Revised Romanization?eumhun
Revised Romanization (translit.)?eumhun
McCune–Reischauer?ŭmhun
Yale Romanization?umhwun

Noun

음훈 • (eumhun) (hanja 音訓)

  1. reading of the sound and meaning of a hanja together, “eumhun”
  2. both the native translation and the Sino-Korean pronunciation of a hanja, additively displayed in that order so as to help learn its meaning and sound

See also

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