귀양

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Korean[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Nativisation of the Sino-Korean term 귀향 (, gwihyang, “return to the countryside”). Originally referred to a specific form of exile in which a disgraced minister was stripped of his office and sent back to his hometown, but expanded to mean all forms of exile as punishment in dynastic East Asia.

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Romanizations
Revised Romanization?gwiyang
Revised Romanization (translit.)?gwiyang
McCune–Reischauer?kwiyang
Yale Romanization?kwiyang

Noun[edit]

귀양 (gwiyang)

  1. (historical) exile; banishment (as judicial punishment in dynastic East Asia)

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