미인계

Korean

Etymology

Sino-Korean word from 美人計, from 美人 (“beautiful woman”) + 計 (“stratagem”); this is Stratagem #31 in the Thirty-Six Stratagems.

Pronunciation
  • (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA(key): [ˈmi(ː)inɡje̞] ~ [ˈmi(ː)inɡe̞]
  • Phonetic hangul: [미(ː)인계/미(ː)인게]
    • Though still prescriptive in Standard Korean, most speakers in both Koreas no longer distinguish vowel length.
Romanizations
Revised Romanization?miin'gye
Revised Romanization (translit.)?miingye
McCune–Reischauer?miin'gye
Yale Romanization?mīinkyey

Noun

미인계 • (miin'gye) (hanja 美人計)

  1. honey trap; beauty trap; honeypot; sexual entrapment
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