사사오입

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Korean

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Etymology

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Sino-Korean word from 四捨五入 (rounding to the closest number (0.4 being rounded down, 0.5 being rounded up); rounding off).

Pronunciation

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Romanizations
Revised Romanization?sasaoip
Revised Romanization (translit.)?sasaoib
McCune–Reischauer?sasaoip
Yale Romanization?sasaoip

Noun

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사사오입 (sasaoip) (hanja 四捨五入)

  1. (arithmetic, uncommon) rounding to the closest number (0.4 being rounded down, 0.5 being rounded up); rounding off
    Synonym: 반올림 (banollim)

Proper noun

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사사오입 (Sasaoip) (hanja 四捨五入)

  1. (South Korea) Short for 사사오입 (sasaoip gaeheon, literally rounding off constitutional amendment); the 1954 incident where the Syngman Rhee administration attempted to justify a constitutional amendment with insufficient ayes through the concept of rounding off