Korean/Words/벽

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벽

Great Wall of China

Berlin Wall in 1986

Seawall and beach of Wenduine, Belgium, on the North Sea.

Roman: byeog

Hanja: 壁

Noun

1. 집이나 방 따위의 둘레를 막은 수직 건조물.

   wall

2. 극복하기 어려운 한계나 장애를 비유적으로 이르는 말.

   barrier, obstacle

Compounds

• 바람벽 (baram-, "surrounding wall")
• 성벽 (城壁, seong-, "rampart, defensive wall" around castles or cities )
• 장벽 (障壁, jang-, "dam; barrier") cf. 베를린 장벽 "Berlin Wall"
• 절벽 (絶壁, jeolbyeog, "cliff") cf. bergvegg #Norwegian "rock face" from berg ("cliff") + vegg ("wall")

Relatives

• 울(타리) (ul-tari, "thin fence, barrier") cf. wall #English
• 담(벼락) (dam-byeorag, "thick fence or wall") cf. dam #English
• 댐 (daem, "dam") cf. "Afsluitdam," as it were
• 둑 (dug, "dyke") cf. Afsluitdijk
• 제방 (堤防, jebang, "dyke, levee, bank, embankment")

See also: (What's common in the following?)

• 벼락 (byerag, "wall" & "thunderbolt") cf. Barak #English from Hebrew for "thunderbolt"
• 벼랑 (byeorang, "cliff, precipice")
• 벼룩 (bueorug, "flea")

Comparatives

From veggr #Old Norse, etc. Cantonese: 壁 (bek, bik) Danish: væg, vægge, vegg Faroese: veggur Icelandic: veggur Korean: 벽 (壁, byeog) Norwegian: vegg Old English: wǣġ Old Norse: veggr Swedish: vägg