칠전팔기

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Korean[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Sino-Korean word from 七轉八起 (tumbling seven times, standing up eight times), orthographic borrowing from Japanese (しち)(てん)(はっ)() (shichitenhakki).

Pronunciation[edit]

Romanizations
Revised Romanization?chiljeonpalgi
Revised Romanization (translit.)?chiljeonpalgi
McCune–Reischauer?ch'iljŏnp'algi
Yale Romanization?chilcenphal.ki

Noun[edit]

칠전팔기 (chiljeonpalgi) (hanja 七轉八起)

  1. (four-character idiom from Classical Chinese) "tumbling seven times and standing up eight times"; persevering despite repeated failures

Derived terms[edit]