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This word originally refers to disabled individuals, but in modern Korean is commonly used as an insult with meanings varying contextually from "jerk" to "dumbass" or "dickhead" 보지; boji or 씹; ssip: Noun. A vagina or woman; 새끼; saekki: Noun. A noun used to derogatorily refer to any general person.
Ssi (Hangul: 씨; Hanja: 氏) is the most commonly used honorific used amongst people of approximately equal speech level. It is attached after the full name, such as ' Lee Seokmin ssi'' (이석민 씨) , or simply after the first name, "Seokmin ssi (석민 씨)" if the speaker is more familiar with someone.
This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Korean on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Korean in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.
Ssireum (Korean: 씨름; Korean pronunciation:) [1] or Korean wrestling is a folk wrestling style and traditional national sport of Korea that began in the fourth century.. In the modern form each contestant wears a belt (satba) that wraps around the waist and the thigh.
Korean pronouns pose some difficulty to speakers of English due to their complexity. The Korean language makes extensive use of speech levels and honorifics in its grammar, and Korean pronouns also change depending on the social distinction between the speaker and the person or persons spoken to.
It's been suggested that we agree on a system for indicating the pronunciation of Korean words that have Wikipedia articles, so that there isn't inconsistency for example in writing "ㅡ" as [ɯ] or [ɨ]. We could put up a key in Help space, and link to it from the transcriptions, the way we do now for Irish, Russian, French, Italian, Hebrew, etc.
Korean has 19 consonant phonemes. [1]For each plosive and affricate, there is a three-way contrast between unvoiced segments, which are distinguished as plain, tense, and aspirated.
The Korean language has diverged between North and South Korea due to the length of time that the two states have been separated. [1]The Korean Language Society in 1933 made the "Proposal for Unified Korean Orthography" (Korean: 한글 맞춤법 통일안; Hanja: 한글맞춤法統一案; RR: Hangeul Matchumbeop Tong-iran).