소설

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Korean

Pronunciation

  • (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA(key):
  • Phonetic hangul:
    • Though still prescribed in Standard Korean, most speakers in both Koreas no longer distinguish vowel length.
Romanizations
Revised Romanization?soseol
Revised Romanization (translit.)?soseol
McCune–Reischauer?sosŏl
Yale Romanization?sōsel

Etymology 1

Sino-Korean word from 小說, from 小 (“trivial”) + 說 (“words”).

Noun

소설 • (soseol) (hanja 小說)

  1. fictional literature; fictional story
    Hypernym: 문학(文學) (munhak, “literature”)
    Coordinate terms: 시(詩) (si, “poetry”), 수필(隨筆) (supil, “literary essay”)
    소설을 읽음으로써 사람들은 잠시 현실로부터 벗어날 수 있다.
    Soseor-eul ilgeum-eurosseo saram-deur-eun jamsi hyeonsil-lobuteo beoseonal su itda.
    By reading fiction, people can escape from reality for a while.
Hyponyms

Use of these terms is slightly technical. Koreans will usually say 소설(小說) (soseol) where an English speaker would use the more specific term novel.

Etymology 2

Sino-Korean word from 小雪.

Proper noun

소설 • (Soseol) (hanja 小雪)

  1. one of the twenty-four solar terms
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