사단

Korean

Etymology 1

Sino-Korean word from 師團 (“military division”).

Pronunciation
Romanizations
Revised Romanization?sadan
Revised Romanization (translit.)?sadan
McCune–Reischauer?sadan
Yale Romanization?satan

Noun

사단 • (sadan) (hanja 師團)

  1. (military) military division

Etymology 2

Sino-Korean word from 社團, from 社 (“society”) + 團 (“organization”).

Pronunciation
Romanizations
Revised Romanization?sadan
Revised Romanization (translit.)?sadan
McCune–Reischauer?sadan
Yale Romanization?satan

Noun

사단 • (sadan) (hanja 社團)

  1. association; society; civic organization (non-governmental organization organized by private citizens for cultural, academic or public welfare purposes)
  • 재단(財團) (jaedan, “foundation”)

Etymology 3

Sino-Korean word from 四 (“four”) + 端 (“clues”), introduced by the fourth-century BCE philosophical treatise Mencius.

Pronunciation
  • (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA(key): [ˈsʰa̠(ː)da̠n]
  • Phonetic hangul: [사(ː)단]
    • Though still prescriptive in Standard Korean, most speakers in both Koreas no longer distinguish vowel length.
Romanizations
Revised Romanization?sadan
Revised Romanization (translit.)?sadan
McCune–Reischauer?sadan
Yale Romanization?sātan

Noun

사단 • (sadan) (hanja 四端)

  1. (Confucianism, philosophy) the four universal emotions that reveal the fundamental goodness of humanity:
    1. 측은지심 (惻隱之心, cheugeunjisim, “compassion and sympathy”)
    2. 수오지심 (羞惡之心, suojisim, “shame and dislike [of wrongdoing]”)
    3. 사양지심 (辭讓之心, sayangjisim, “modesty and politeness”)
    4. 시비지심 (是非之心, sibijisim, “discrimination between good and bad”)
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