성독

Korean

Etymology 1

Sino-Korean word from 聲讀 (“reading with sound”).

Examples
Excerpt from cantillation of 漁(어)父(부)辭(사), The Fisherman: 屈(굴)原(원)이 曰(왈), 擧(거)世(세)皆(개)濁(탁)이어날 我(아)獨(독)淸(청)하고 衆(중)人(인)이 皆(개)醉(취)어늘 我(아)獨(독)醒(성)이라. Gul Won (Qu Yuan) said, "The whole world is murky, and I alone am clear; everyone is drunk, and I alone am sober."

Pronunciation

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [sʰʌ̹ŋdo̞k̚]
• Phonetic hangul: [성독]

Romanizations
Revised Romanization?	seongdok
Revised Romanization (translit.)?	seongdog
McCune–Reischauer?	sŏngdok
Yale Romanization?	sengtok

Noun

성독 • (seongdok) (hanja 聲讀)

1. traditional Korean method of cantillating Literary Chinese, which adds 현토 (懸吐, hyeonto, “Korean grammatical particles”) in natural breaks in the text to aid comprehension while retaining the Sinitic vocabulary and word order

Etymology 2

Sino-Korean word from 聖讀 (“holy reading”).

Pronunciation

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

Romanizations
Revised Romanization?	seongdok
Revised Romanization (translit.)?	seongdog
McCune–Reischauer?	sŏngdok
Yale Romanization?	sēngtok

Noun

성독 • (seongdok) (hanja 聖讀)

1. (Christianity) Lectio Divina (monastic method of scripture-reading)