하필
Korean
editEtymology
editSino-Korean word from 何必, from 何 (“how; why”) + 必 (“necessarily”)
Pronunciation
edit- (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA(key): [ha̠pʰiɭ]
- Phonetic hangul: [하필]
Romanizations | |
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Revised Romanization? | hapil |
Revised Romanization (translit.)? | hapil |
McCune–Reischauer? | hap'il |
Yale Romanization? | ha.phil |
Adverb
edit- of all things, why... (used to emphasize the question of why it must specifically be so)