Korean/Words/벽

벽

Great Wall of China

Berlin Wall in 1986

Seawall ^[1] and beach of Wenduine, Belgium, on the North Sea.

Compounds

• 바람벽 (baram-, "surrounding wall")
• 성벽 (城壁, seong-, "rampart, defensive wall" around castles or cities ^[4])
• 장벽 (障壁, jang-, "dam; barrier") ^[5] cf. 베를린 장벽 "Berlin Wall"
• 절벽 (絶壁, jeolbyeog, "cliff") cf. bergvegg #Norwegian "rock face" from berg ("cliff") + vegg ("wall")

Relatives

• 울(타리) (ul-tari, "thin fence, barrier") cf. wall #English
• 담(벼락) (dam-byeorag, "thick fence or wall") cf. dam #English
• 댐 (daem, "dam") cf. "Afsluitdam," as it were
• 둑 (dug, "dyke") cf. Afsluitdijk
• 제방 (堤防, jebang, "dyke, levee, bank, embankment")

See also: (What's common in the following?)

• 벼락 (byerag, "wall" & "thunderbolt") cf. Barak #English from Hebrew for "thunderbolt"
• 벼랑 (byeorang, "cliff, precipice")
• 벼룩 (bueorug, "flea")

Comparatives

1. ↑ Dutch zeedijk
2. ↑ https://ko.dict.naver.com/#/search?query=벽
3. ↑ https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/벽
4. ↑ Often surrounded by the moat to make more defensive.
5. ↑ https://ko.dict.naver.com/kokodict/#/search?query=장벽 障壁
   1. 가리어 막은 벽.
   2. 둘 사이의 관계를 순조롭지 못하게 가로막는 장애물.
   3. 장애가 되는 것이나 극복하기 어려운 것.