pyeong

English

Alternative forms

• p'yong, pyong, pyung

Etymology

Korean 평(坪) (pyeong).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pjɔŋ/
• Rhymes: -ɒŋ

Noun

pyeong (plural pyeong)

1. A unit of area in Korea, used especially for floorspace, equivalent to 3.3058 m².
   • [1969, Bong Baik, “Cradle of the Revolution—Liberated Areas”, in Kim Il Sung Biography: From Birth to Triumphant Return to Homeland‎^[1], volume I, Tokyo: Miraisha, →OCLC, page 185:

     According to a top-secret document of Japanese imperialism entitled “A Study of Communist Bandits in Manchuria,” peasants of the east district of Santaowan in Yenchi county, were given an average of 4,800 pyung(one pyung equals 3.305 square metres) per household.]

   • 2006, Chi-yŏng Kong, translated by Bruce Fulton, Human Decency, page 85:

     Now we live in one of the new towns in a twenty-eight-pyeong apartment we bought on installment.

   • 2015, Han Kang, translated by Deborah Smith, The Vegetarian, Granta, published 2018, page 57:

     It was an eight-p'yong studio on the second floor below ground level of K group's headquarters, provided as part of their corporate sponsorship drive […] .