시혜

Korean

Etymology

Sino-Korean word from 施惠.

Pronunciation
  • (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA(key): [ˈɕʰi(ː)ʝje̞] ~ [ˈɕʰi(ː)ɦe̞]
  • Phonetic hangul: [시(ː)혜/시(ː)헤]
    • Though still prescriptive in Standard Korean, the great majority of speakers (in both Koreas) no longer distinguish vowel length.
Romanizations
Revised Romanization?sihye
Revised Romanization (translit.)?sihye
McCune–Reischauer?sihye
Yale Romanization?sīhyey

Noun

시혜 • (sihye) (hanja 施惠)

  1. generosity; charity; the dispensing of generosity or charity
    • c. 1900, anonymous, ᄉᆞᆷᄒᆞᆫ가 [Song of Three Sorrows]:
      ᄒᆞᄒᆡ갓치 널분 덕ᄐᆡᆨ 시ᄒᆡᄒᆞ기 힘을 쎠쎠 […]
      hahaegatchi neolbun deoktaek sihaehagi himeul ssyeossyeo […]
      [By] her kindness, as wide as the river and sea, she exerted her strength in dispensing charity […]
    • 2014, 진은영, “우리의 연민은 정오의 그림차처럼 짧고, 우리의 수치심은 자정의 그림자처럼 길다”, in 눈먼 자들의 국가 [The Country of the Blind], Munhak dongne, →ISBN, page 75:
      시혜는 강자가 약자에게 제공하는 것으로 불평등한 관계를 전제할 때만 가능한 활동이다. 시혜와 평등은 완벽하게 대립한다.
      Sihye-neun gangja-ga yakja-ege jegonghaneun geos-euro bulpyeongdeunghan gwangye-reul jeonjehal ttae-man ganeunghan hwaldong'ida. Sihye-wa pyeongdeung-'eun wanbyeokhage daeriphanda.
      Charity is given by the strong to the weak, an activity possible only by presupposing a relationship of inequality. Charity and equality are diametrically opposed.

Derived terms
  • 시혜(施惠)하다 (sihyehada)
  • 시혜적(施惠的) (sihyejeok)
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