day 103faith and four-character words

faith and four-character words

Describe faith practices as cultural facts (신자, 예배, 찬송가, 승려, 참배, 숭배, 저승) and use your first four-character words (사자성어) with -(이)라더니 and -(으)로.

today’s words

• 수도 sudo · spiritual discipline (religious)
• 숭배 sungbae · worship, adoration
• 승려 seungnyeo · Buddhist monk (formal)
• 신자 sinja · believer, follower (of a religion)
• 예배 yebae · (church) service, worship
• 예수 yesu · Jesus
• 저승 jeoseung · the next world, the afterlife (folk belief)
• 찬송가 chansongga · hymn
• 참배 chambae · paying respects (at a shrine, a memorial)
• 각양각색 gagyanggaksaek · all kinds, every sort (各樣各色)
• 감언이설 gameonniseol · sweet talk, honeyed words (甘言利說)
• 격세지감 gyeoksejigam · feeling the world has changed (隔世之感)
• 고진감래 gojingamnae · after hardship comes joy (苦盡甘來)
• 구사일생 gusailsaeng · a narrow escape (九死一生)
• 군계일학 gungyeilhak · standing out from the crowd (群鷄一鶴)
• 금상첨화 geumsangcheomhwa · the icing on the cake (錦上添花)
• 금시초문 geumsichomun · the first I’ve heard of it (今時初聞)
• 금의환향 geumuihwanhyang · coming home in glory (錦衣還鄕)
• 금지옥엽 geumjiogyeop · a precious child (金枝玉葉)
• 대기만성 daegimanseong · a late bloomer (大器晩成)
• 대대손손 daedaesonson · generation after generation
• 대성통곡 daeseongtonggok · loud wailing, crying one’s heart out
• 동문서답 dongmunseodap · an irrelevant answer (東問西答)
• 동병상련 dongbyeongsangnyeon · fellow sufferers (同病相憐)

sentences

• 그 절의 승려들은 평생 수도의 길을 걷는다. · The monks of that temple follow the path of spiritual discipline all their lives.
• 한국에는 불교 신자와 기독교 신자가 모두 많다. · Korea has many Buddhists and many Christians.
• 일요일 아침이면 예배나 미사에 가는 사람이 많다. · On Sunday mornings many people go to a church service or to mass.
• 크리스마스는 예수의 탄생을 기념하는 날이다. · Christmas is the day that marks the birth of Jesus.
• 성당에서 흘러나오는 찬송가 소리가 거리까지 들렸다. · The sound of hymns from the church could be heard out in the street.