난무

Korean

Etymology

Sino-Korean word from 亂舞 (“wild dance; raucous dance”). Compare Japanese 乱舞(らんぶ) (ranbu).

Pronunciation
  • (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA(key): [ˈna̠(ː)nmu]
  • Phonetic hangul: [난(ː)무]
    • Though still prescriptive in Standard Korean, the great majority of speakers (in both Koreas) no longer distinguish vowel length.
Romanizations
Revised Romanization?nanmu
Revised Romanization (translit.)?nanmu
McCune–Reischauer?nanmu
Yale Romanization?nānmu

Noun
South Korean
Standard Language		 난무(亂舞) (nanmu)
North Korean
Standard Language		 란무(亂舞) (ranmu)

난무 • (nanmu) (hanja 亂舞)

  1. wild dance; dance without a choreography
    • 2020 February 16, “조선시대 사형집행인, 망나니”, in unipress.co.kr‎:
      형을 집행할 때 망나니는 칼을 머리 위로 쳐든 채 잠시 동안 난무를 추고, 스스로 흥분 상태에 들어간 때 그 여세로 칼을 내리쳐 한칼에 참했다고 한다.
      Hyeong'eul jiphaenghal ttae mangnanineun kareul meori wiro chyeodeun chae jamsi dong'an nanmureul chugo, seuseuro heungbun sangtaee deureogan ttae geu yeosero kareul naerichyeo hankare chamhaetdago handa.
      He reports that when carrying out the sentence, the executioner would raise the sword above the head and dance wildly for a few moments; once he had entered a state of excitation, he would use that momentum to bring down the blade and decapitate [the criminal] in a single stroke.
  2. (figuratively, derogatory) rampage, wild proliferation

Derived terms
  • 난무(亂舞)하다 (nanmuhada)
  • 난무장(亂舞場) (nanmujang)
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