사회학

Korean

Etymology

Sino-Korean word from 社會學, from 社會 (“society”) + 學 (“-logy”), an orthographic borrowing from Japanese 社会学(しゃかいがく) (shakaigaku), a calque of French sociologie.

Pronunciation

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [sʰa̠βwe̞ɦa̠k̚] ~ [sʰa̠ɦø̞ɦa̠k̚]
• Phonetic hangul: [사훼학/사회학]

Romanizations
Revised Romanization?	sahoehak
Revised Romanization (translit.)?	sahoehag
McCune–Reischauer?	sahoehak
Yale Romanization?	sahoyhak

Noun

사회학 • (sahoehak) (hanja 社會學)

1. (social sciences) sociology