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Korean
Etymology
Sino-Korean word from 生老病死 (“birth, old age, disease, death”), referring to the four sights of the miseries of human existence encountered by the young Buddha, which motivated his desire to end human suffering.
Pronunciation
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| Revised Romanization? | saengnobyeongsa |
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| Revised Romanization (translit.)? | saenglobyeongsa |
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| McCune–Reischauer? | saengnobyŏngsa |
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| Yale Romanization? | saynglopyengsa |
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Noun
생로병사 • (saengnobyeongsa) (hanja 生老病死)
- (four-character idiom from Classical Chinese, originally Buddhism) birth, old age, disease, and death, the destiny of all humanity
부모님을 어릴 적에 여읜 후 인간의 생로병사를 실감하며 평생 살아 왔다.- bumonim-eul eoril jeog-e yeouin hu in'gan-ui saengnobyeongsa-reul silgamha-myeo pyeongsaeng sara watda.
- After losing her parents at an early age, she has lived all her life in the realization of human mortality.