천편일률

Korean edit

Etymology edit

Sino-Korean word from 千 (“thousand”) + 篇 (“pieces of writing”) + 一 (“one”) + 律 (“poetic harmonics”): "a thousand writings written to one meter", hence monotonous.

Pronunciation edit

(SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [t͡ɕʰʌ̹npʰjʌ̹niʎʎuɭ]
Phonetic hangul: [천펴닐률]

Romanizations
Revised Romanization^?	cheonpyeonillyul
Revised Romanization (translit.)^?	cheonpyeon'illyul
McCune–Reischauer^?	ch'ŏnp'yŏnillyul
Yale Romanization^?	chenphyen.illyul

Noun edit

천편일률 • (cheonpyeonillyul) (hanja 千篇一律)

(four-character idiom from Classical Chinese) monotony; lacking distinction

Derived terms edit

천편일률적(千篇一律的) (cheonpyeonillyuljeok)