육

육	U+C721, 육 HANGUL SYLLABLE YUG

Composition:

ㅇ + ㅠ + ㄱ

← 유
[U+C720]

Hangul Syllables

윢 →
[U+C722]

위 ←	→ 으
유육윢 윣 윤 윥 윦 윧 율 윩 윪 윫 윬 윭 윮 윯 윰 윱 윲 윳 윴 융 윶 윷 윸 윹 윺 윻

Korean

Pronunciation

(SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [juk̚]
Phonetic hangul: [육]

Romanizations
Revised Romanization^?	yuk
Revised Romanization (translit.)^?	yug
McCune–Reischauer^?	yuk
Yale Romanization^?	yuk

Etymology 1

**Korean numbers ^(edit)**
	60^{[a], [b]}
← 5	6	7 →
Native isol.: 여섯 (yeoseot) Native attr.: 여섯 (yeoseot), (archaic) 엿 (yeot) Sino-Korean: 육 (yuk), 륙 (ryuk) Hanja: 六 Ordinal: 여섯째 (yeoseotjjae)

Sino-Korean word from 六 (“six”), from the Middle Korean reading 륙〮 (Yale: lyúk), from Middle Chinese 六 (MC ljuwk).

Alternative forms

륙 (六, ryuk, “six”)

Numeral

육 • (yuk) (hanja 六)

(Sino-Korean numeral) six
Synonym: 여섯 (yeoseot, native numeral)

Usage notes

In modern Korean, numbers are usually written in Arabic numerals.

The Korean language has two sets of numerals: a native set of numerals inherited from Old Korean, and a Sino-Korean set which was borrowed from Middle Chinese in the first millennium C.E.

Native classifiers take native numerals.

개 한 마리 (gae han mari, “one dog”, native numeral)
나무 두 그루 (namu du geuru, “two trees”, native numeral)

Some Sino-Korean classifiers take native numerals, others take Sino-Korean numerals, while yet others take both.

종이 두 장(張) (jong'i du jang, “two sheets of paper”, native numeral)
이 분(分) (i bun, “two minutes”, Sino-Korean numeral)
서른/삼십 명(名) (seoreun/samsip myeong, “thirty people”, both sets possible)

Recently loaned classifiers generally take Sino-Korean numerals.

일 킬로미터 (il killomiteo, “one kilometer”, Sino-Korean numeral)

For many terms, a native numeral has a quantifying sense, whereas a Sino-Korean numeral has a sense of labeling.

세 반(班) (se ban, “three school classes”, native numeral)
삼 반(班) (sam ban, “Class Number Three”, Sino-Korean numeral)

When used in isolation, native numerals refer to objects of that number and are used in counting and quantifying, whereas Sino-Korean numerals refer to the numbers in a more mathematical sense.

하나만 더 주세 요 (hana-man deo juse-yo, “Could you give me just one more, please”, native numeral)
일 더하기 일은? (il deohagi ir-eun?, “What's one plus one?”, Sino-Korean numeral)

While older stages of Korean had native numerals up to the thousands, native numerals currently exist only up to ninety-nine, and Sino-Korean is used for all higher numbers. There is also a tendency—particularly among younger speakers—to uniformly use Sino-Korean numerals for the higher tens as well, so that native numerals such as 일흔 (ilheun, “seventy”) or 아흔 (aheun, “ninety”) are becoming less common.

Derived terms

See the hanja entry at 六 for Sino-Korean compounds of 육 (六, yuk).

Etymology 2

Sino-Korean word from 肉 (“meat”), from the Middle Korean reading ᅀᅲᆨ〮 (Yale: zyúk), from Middle Chinese 肉 (MC nyuwk).

Noun

육 • (yuk) (hanja 肉)

(only in compounds) meat; flesh
Synonym: 고기 (gogi)

우육 (牛肉) ― uyuk ― beef (literally, “cow meat”)

돈육 (豚肉) ― donyuk ― pork (literally, “pig meat”)
(literary) the body, as opposed to the spirit
Synonym: 육체(肉體) (yukche)
- 1926, Han Yong-un, 한용운(韓龍雲), “리별 (Ribyeol) [Separation]”, in 님의 沈(침)默(묵) (Nimui Chimmuk) [The Beloved's Silence]:
  진정한 사랑 은 間(간)斷(단)이 업서々 리별 은 愛(애)人(인)의肉(육)ᄲᅮᆫ 이오 사랑 은 無(무)窮(궁)이다
  jinjeonghan sarang-eun gandani eopseoseo ribyeor-eun aein-ui yuk-ppun-io sarang-eun mugung-ida
  As true love does not take breaks, a lover's separation is merely of the body, such that the love is eternal
- 2019, ““神(신)을 모른다는 것을 아는 것(無(무)知(지)의 知(지)), 이 말이 정답””, in Monthly Chosun‎^[1]:
  생명 과 죽음 의 문제 를 […] 이야기하고 싶어 했다. 육과 영, 속 과 성 의 경계 허물기 다.
  Saengmyeong-gwa jugeum-ui munje-reul [ … ] iyagihago sipeo haetda. Yuk-gwa yeong, sok-gwa seong-ui gyeonggye heomulgi-da.
  [He] wanted to explain the question of life and death, breaking the lines between the body and the soul, the sacred and the secular.

Derived terms

See the hanja entry at 肉 for Sino-Korean compounds of 육 (肉, yuk).

Etymology 3

Sino-Korean word from 陸.

Noun

육 • (yuk) (hanja 陸)

(South Korea) abbreviation of 육군(陸軍) (yukgun, “army”)