셤

셤 U+C164, 셤 HANGUL SYLLABLE SYEOM Composition: ㅅ + ㅕ + ㅁ ← 셣 [U+C163] Hangul Syllables 셥 → [U+C165]

셔셕셖셗션셙셚 셛셜셝셞셟셠셡 셢셣셤셥셦셧셨 셩셪셫셬셭셮셯
세 ←	→ 셰

Early Modern Korean

Alternative forms

• 섬 (sem) — late 19th century

Etymology 1

From Middle Korean 셤〯 (syěm).

Possibly related to Baekje 斯麻 (*syema, “island”) and Japanese 島 (shima, “island”).

Pronunciation

• (c. 1750) IPA^(key): /sjəːm/, [ɕəːm]

Noun

셤 (syem)

1. island

Descendants

• Korean: 섬 (seom)

Etymology 2

From Middle Korean 셤〮 (syém).

Pronunciation

• (c. 1750) IPA^(key): /sjəm/, [ɕəm]

Noun

셤 (syem)

1. a seom, a unit of volume

Descendants

• Korean: 섬 (seom)

Korean

Pronunciation

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

Romanizations
Revised Romanization?	syeom
Revised Romanization (translit.)?	syeom
McCune–Reischauer?	syŏm
Yale Romanization?	syēm

Noun

셤 • (syeom)

1. (colloquial) Contraction of 시험(試驗) (siheom, “test, exam”).

Middle Korean

Etymology 1

First attested in the 使高麗錄, 1123, as Late Old Korean 苫.

Possibly related to Baekje 斯麻 (*syema, “island”) and Japanese 島 (shima, “island”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sjə̌m/, [ɕə̌m]

Noun

셤〯 (syěm)

1. island
   • 1447, “Stanza 67”, in 龍飛御天歌 / 용비어천가 [Yongbi Eocheon'ga]:

     셤〯 안해〮 자〮시ᇙ 제〮 한〮비〮 사ᄋᆞ〮리로ᄃᆡ〮 뷔〯어ᅀᅡ〮 ᄌᆞ〮ᄆᆞ니〮ᅌᅵ다〮

     syěm ành-áy cásìlq céy hánpí sàól-ì-lwòtóy pwǔyGèzá cómòníngìtá

     When [General Yi] stationed [his troops] on [Wihwa] Island, heavy rain fell for three days; only after [they] cleared themselves away from it, the [island] was submerged.

Descendants

• Early Modern Korean: 셤 (syem), 섬 (sem)
  • Korean: 섬 (seom)
• Jeju: 섬 (seom)

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sjə́m/, [ɕə́m]

Counter

셤〮 (syém)

1. a seom, a unit of volume
   • 1481, “君不見簡蘇徯 / 군불견간소혜”, in 分類杜工部詩諺解 / 분류두공부시언해 [Bullyu Dugongbu Si Eonhae], page 19:45b:

     그듸ᄂᆞᆫ〮 긼〮ᄀᆞ〯ᅀᆡᆺ ᄇᆞ리〮옛〮ᄂᆞᆫ 모〮ᄉᆞᆯ 보디〮 아니〮ᄒᆞᄂᆞᆫ다〮 […] ᄒᆞᆫ 셤〮만〮 ᄒᆞᆫ 녯〯 므〮레 蛟龍이〮 갈맛〮ᄂᆞ니〮라

     kùtùy-nón kíl-s-kǒz-òy-s pòlíyéysnòn mwós-òl pwòtí àníhònòntá […] hòn syém-mán hòn nyěy-s múl-èy KYWO.LYWONG-í kàlmásnònílà

     Have you not seen by the roadside a deserted pond? […] In that seom of old water, there hides the Jiaolong.

Descendants

• Early Modern Korean: 셤 (syem), 섬 (sem)
  • Korean: 섬 (seom)
• Jeju: 섬 (seom)