월월산산

Korean

Etymology

Sino-Korean word from 月 (“moon”) + 月 (“moon”) + 山 (“mountain”) + 山 (“mountain”). A visual pun based on 파자 (破字, paja, “splitting of a Chinese character into individual components”); the character 朋 (bung, “friend”) is equivalent to a horizontal duplication of 月 (wol, “moon”), and the character 出 (chul, “to leave”) appears almost identical to a vertical duplication of 山 (san, “mountain”).

Pronunciation

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [wʌ̹ɾwʌ̹ɭsʰa̠nsʰa̠n]
• Phonetic hangul: [워뤌산산]

Romanizations
Revised Romanization?	worwolsansan
Revised Romanization (translit.)?	wol'wolsansan
McCune–Reischauer?	wŏrwŏlsansan
Yale Romanization?	wel.wel.sansan

Noun

월월산산 • (worwolsansan) (hanja 月月山山)

1. (rare, obsolete) departure of a friend