사단

Korean

Etymology 1

Sino-Korean word from 師團 (“military division”).

Pronunciation

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [sʰa̠da̠n]
• Phonetic hangul: [사단]

Romanizations
Revised Romanization?	sadan
Revised Romanization (translit.)?	sadan
McCune–Reischauer?	sadan
Yale Romanization?	satan

Noun

사단 • (sadan) (hanja 師團)

1. (military) military division

Related terms

• 군단(軍團) (gundan, “army corps”)
• 여단(旅團) (yeodan, “army brigade”)

 

Etymology 2

Sino-Korean word from 社團, from 社 (“society”) + 團 (“organization”).

Pronunciation

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [sʰa̠da̠n]
• Phonetic hangul: [사단]

Romanizations
Revised Romanization?	sadan
Revised Romanization (translit.)?	sadan
McCune–Reischauer?	sadan
Yale Romanization?	satan

Noun

사단 • (sadan) (hanja 社團)

1. association; society; civic organization (non-governmental organization organized by private citizens for cultural, academic or public welfare purposes)

Related terms

• 재단(財團) (jaedan, “foundation”)

 

Etymology 3

Sino-Korean word from 四 (“four”) + 端 (“clues”), introduced by the fourth-century BCE philosophical treatise Mencius.

Pronunciation

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [ˈsʰa̠(ː)da̠n]
• Phonetic hangul: [사(ː)단]
  • Though still prescribed in Standard Korean, most speakers in both Koreas no longer distinguish vowel length.

Romanizations
Revised Romanization?	sadan
Revised Romanization (translit.)?	sadan
McCune–Reischauer?	sadan
Yale Romanization?	sātan

Noun

사단 • (sadan) (hanja 四端)

1. (Confucianism, philosophy) the four universal emotions that reveal the fundamental goodness of humanity:
   1. 측은지심 (惻隱之心, cheugeunjisim, “compassion and sympathy”)
   2. 수오지심 (羞惡之心, suojisim, “shame and dislike [of wrongdoing]”)
   3. 사양지심 (辭讓之心, sayangjisim, “modesty and politeness”)
   4. 시비지심 (是非之心, sibijisim, “discrimination between good and bad”)