일

• IPA^(key): /il/,

일 (il)

1. work, job
2. business
3. matter, affair, concern

Sino-Korean word from 一.

일 (il)

1. one

   Synonym: ᄒᆞ나 (hawna)

First attested in the Yongbi eocheon'ga (龍飛御天歌 / 용비어천가), 1447, as Middle Korean 일〯 (Yale: ǐl), related to Middle Korean 일〯다〮 (Yale: ǐl-tá, “to occur, to arise”).^[1]

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key):
• Phonetic hangul:
  • Though still prescribed in Standard Korean, most speakers in both Koreas no longer distinguish vowel length.

• South Gyeongsang (Busan) pitch accent: 일의 / 일에 / 일까지

  Syllables in red take high pitch. This word always takes low pitch, and heightens the pitch of two subsequent suffixed syllables.

일 • (il)

1. work (activity done for compensation or reward)

   회사에서 혹시 어떤 일 하세요?

   Hoesa-eseo hoksi eotteon il haseyo?

   Excuse me, what work do you do in the company?

2. a fact, an event, a situation (any kind of occurrence)

   무슨 일이야? ― Museun ir-iya? ― What's the matter?

   이런 일이 있을 줄은 몰랐다.

   Ireon ir-i isseul jur-eun mollatda.

   I didn't know something like this would happen.

   옛날 일을 생각하니 슬프다.

   Yennal ir-eul saenggakhani seulpeuda.

   It's sad to think about my old circumstances.

3. deed (any human activity)

   착한 일을 해야지. ― Chakhan ir-eul haeyaji. ― You need to do good things.

4. (euphemistic) urination, defecation, sexual intercourse

Sino-Korean word from 一 (“one”). From Middle Korean 일〮 (Yale: íl).

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key):
• Phonetic hangul:

• South Gyeongsang (Busan) pitch accent: 일의 / 일에 / 일까지

  Syllables in red take high pitch. This word always takes high pitch and also heightens the next suffixed syllable.

일 • (il) (hanja 一)

1. one
2. first

In modern Korean, numbers are usually written in Arabic numerals.

The Korean language has two sets of numerals: a native set of numerals inherited from Old Korean, and a Sino-Korean set which was borrowed from Middle Chinese in the first millennium C.E.

Native classifiers take native numerals.

• 개 한 마리 (gae han mari, “one dog”, native numeral)
• 나무 두 그루 (namu du geuru, “two trees”, native numeral)

Some Sino-Korean classifiers take native numerals, others take Sino-Korean numerals, while yet others take both.

• 종이 두 장(張) (jong'i du jang, “two sheets of paper”, native numeral)
• 이 분(分) (i bun, “two minutes”, Sino-Korean numeral)
• 서른/삼십 명(名) (seoreun/samsip myeong, “thirty people”, both sets possible)

Recently loaned classifiers generally take Sino-Korean numerals.

• 일 킬로미터 (il killomiteo, “one kilometer”, Sino-Korean numeral)

For many terms, a native numeral has a quantifying sense, whereas a Sino-Korean numeral has a sense of labeling.

• 세 반(班) (se ban, “three school classes”, native numeral)
• 삼 반(班) (sam ban, “Class Number Three”, Sino-Korean numeral)

When used in isolation, native numerals refer to objects of that number and are used in counting and quantifying, whereas Sino-Korean numerals refer to the numbers in a more mathematical sense.

• 하나만 더 주세요 (hana-man deo juse-yo, “Could you give me just one more, please”, native numeral)
• 일 더하기 일은? (il deohagi ir-eun?, “What's one plus one?”, Sino-Korean numeral)

While older stages of Korean had native numerals up to the thousands, native numerals currently exist only up to ninety-nine, and Sino-Korean is used for all higher numbers. There is also a tendency—particularly among younger speakers—to uniformly use Sino-Korean numerals for the higher tens as well, so that native numerals such as 일흔 (ilheun, “seventy”) or 아흔 (aheun, “ninety”) are becoming less common.

• See the hanja entry at 一 for Sino-Korean compounds of 일 (一, il).

Sino-Korean word from 日 (“sun; day”).

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key):
• Phonetic hangul:

일 • (il) (hanja 日)

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

   3일 동안 여행하다

   samil dong'an yeohaenghada

   to travel for three days

2. Short for 일요일(日曜日) (iryoil, “Sunday”).

일 • (Il) (hanja 日)

1. Short for 일본(日本) (Ilbon, “Japan”).

• In news headlines, this is customarily written solely in the hanja form, even in contemporary Korean texts otherwise devoid of Chinese characters.

• See the hanja entry at 日 for Sino-Korean compounds of 일 (日, il).

Korean reading of various Chinese characters.

일 (il)

• IPA^(key): /ǐl/

일〯 (ǐl)

1. work, job

• Korean: 일 (il)

From Middle Chinese 一 (MC 'jit).

• IPA^(key): /íl/

일〮 (íl)

1. one

   Synonym: ᄒᆞ낳 (hònàh)

• Korean: 일(一) (il)