Korean edit

Etymology edit

Sino-Korean word from 成年 (legal age, the age of adulthood, age (time of life when one attains full person rights))

Pronunciation edit

Romanizations
Revised Romanization?seongnyeon
Revised Romanization (translit.)?seongnyeon
McCune–Reischauer?sŏngnyŏn
Yale Romanization?sengnyen

Noun edit

성년 (seongnyeon) (hanja 成年)

  1. legal age, the age of adulthood, age (time of life when one attains full person rights)