임질

Korean

Sino-Korean word from 淋疾.

(SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [ˈi(ː)md͡ʑiɭ]
Phonetic hangul: [임(ː)질]
- Though still prescribed in Standard Korean, most speakers in both Koreas no longer distinguish vowel length.

Romanizations
Revised Romanization^?	imjil
Revised Romanization (translit.)^?	imjil
McCune–Reischauer^?	imjil
Yale Romanization^?	īmcil

임질 • (imjil) (hanja 淋疾)

gonorrhea, a sexually transmitted disease
- 1965, Kim Seung'ok, 서울 1964년 겨울 [seoul 1964nyeon gyeoul, Seoul, Winter 1964]:
  그 는 내 가 스물 다섯 살 짜리 시골 출신, 군대 에 갔다가 임질에 한 번 걸려 본 적 있고 지금 은 구청 병사계에서 일하고 있다 는 것 을 아마 알았을 것이다.
  Geu-neun nae-ga seumuldaseot saljjari sigol chulsin, gundae-e gatdaga imjir-e han beon geollyeo bon jeok itgo jigeum-eun gucheong byeongsagye-eseo ilhago itda-neun geos-eul ama arasseul geosida.
  And, I suppose, he would have known that I was a twenty-five-year-old countryside man who had joined the army and contracted gonorrhea there, and who was now working in the district's Army Secretariat.

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