날

First attested in the Yongbi eocheon'ga (龍飛御天歌 / 용비어천가), 1447, as Middle Korean 날〮 (Yale: nál), presumably from Old Korean 日尸 (*NAlh).

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• South Gyeongsang (Busan) pitch accent: 날의 / 날에 / 날까지

  Syllables in red take high pitch. This word always takes high pitch and also heightens the next suffixed syllable, unless it is 에.

날 • (nal)

1. day (twenty-four hours, a thirtieth of the month)

   그는 날마다 일하러 간다.

   Geu-neun nalmada ilhareo ganda.

   He goes to work every day.

   우리 만나기로 한 날이 며칠이지?

   Uri mannagiro han nar-i myeochir-iji?

   When's the day we planned on meeting up?

2. weather (mainly with adjectives describing the weather's state)

   Synonym: (generally) 날씨 (nalssi)

   날이 안 좋다.

   Nar-i an jota.

   The weather is bad.

3. (only in idiomatic expressions) daytime

   Synonym: (generally) 낮 (nat)

• 日 (il), the hanja for "day"

First attested in the Worin cheon'gangjigok (月印千江之曲 / 월인천강지곡), 1449, as Middle Korean ᄂᆞᆶ〮 (Yale: nólh). Possibly related to Old Japanese な (na, “blade”).

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날 • (nal)

1. blade, edge

   Synonym: 칼날 (kallal, “blade (of a knife, sword)”)

First attested in the Neung'eomgyeong eonhae (楞嚴經諺解 / 능엄경언해), 1461, as Middle Korean ᄂᆞᆶ〮 (Yale: nólh).

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날 • (nal)

1. warp, the longitudinal threads of woven cloth

   Antonym: 씨 (ssi, “woof, weft”)

First attested in the Neung'eomgyeong eonhae (楞嚴經諺解 / 능엄경언해), 1461, as Middle Korean ᄂᆞᆯ (Yale: nòl). Possibly related to Japanese 生 (nama, “raw”), 菜 (na, “greens as a food; side dish”) and 生る (naru, “to bear fruit”).

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날 • (nal)

1. Only used in 날로 (nallo, “as something raw, as something uncooked”)

날— • (nal-)

1. raw, uncooked
2. despicable

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날 • (nal)

1. (colloquial) Alternative form of 나를 (nareul, “me”, first-person singular pronoun used as a direct object)

See the main entries.

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날 • (nal)

1. Future adnominal of 나다 (nada, “to exit”): which will exit
2. Future adnominal of 날다 (nalda, “to fly”): which will fly

Modern Korean reading of various Chinese characters, from the Middle Korean reading 날 (Yale: nal).

날 (nal)

Modern South Korean reading of various Chinese characters in isolation or as the first element of a compound, which was also true of most dialects (both North and South) in 1945. From Middle Korean 랄 (Yale: lal); when preceded by another character in a compound, they retain the original 랄 (ral) form.

In the North Korean standard, they are always read as 랄 (ral), but this is an artificial imposition intended to standardize Sino-Korean readings, which did not reflect any major dialect's pronunciation in 1945.

날 (nal)

• IPA^(key): /nál/

날〮 (nál) (locative 나래〮 (nàl-áy))

1. day

• Korean: 날 (nal)