별

별 • (byeol)

1. A Hangul syllabic block made up of ㅂ, ㅕ, and ㄹ.

First attested in the Hunmin jeongeum haerye (訓民正音解例 / 훈민정음해례), 1446 as Middle Korean 별 (byēol), from Old Korean 星利 (*bjә-ri). [1] Compare dialectal forms 비얼 (bieol), 밸 (bael), 베리 (beri), 빌 (bil), etc.

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별 • (byeol)

1. star

   하늘에 별따기

   haneure byeolttagi

   (figurative, literally meaning "picking a star in the sky") impossibility

   우리는 늦게까지 깨어 있다가 별들을 올려다 보았다.

   Urineun neutgekkaji kkaeeo itdaga byeoldeureul ollyeoda boatda.

   We stayed up late to look up at the stars.

   별은 눈에는 쉽게 보이지만 실제로 만지기란 불가능에 가깝다.

   Byeoreun nuneneun swipge boijiman siljero manjigiran bulganeung-e gakkapda.

   Star is easily visible, but it's almost impossible to actually touch a star .

• 성 (星, seong)
• 목성 (mokseong, “Jupiter”)
• 금성 (geumseong, “Venus”)
• 수성 (suseong, “Mercury”)
• 토성 (toseong, “Saturn”)
• 천왕성 (cheonwangseong, “Uranus”)
• 해왕성 (haewangseong, “Neptune”)
• 화성 (hwaseong, “Mars”)

• 별나라 (byeollara, “stellar world”)
• 별따기 (byeolttagi, “impossibility”)
• 별똥 (byeolttong, “meteorite”)
• 별무늬 (byeolmunui, “starry pattern or design”)
• 별박이 (byeolbagi, “horse with a white spot on the head”)
• 별빛 (byeolbit, “starlight”)
• 별자리 (byeoljari, “constellation”)
• 별표 (byeolpyo, “asterisk”)
• 떠돌이별 (tteodoribyeol, “planet”)
• 별똥별 (byeolttongbyeol, “shooting star, meteor”)
• 붙박이별 (butbagibyeol, “fixed star”)
• 샛별 (saetbyeol, “morning star, Phosphorus”)

• 반짝이다 (banjjagida, “to twinkle”)
• 불 (bul, “ fire”)
• 빛 (bit, “ light”)

• 하늘 (haneul, “sky, heaven”)
• 땅 (ttang, “earth”)
• 해 (hae, “sun”)
• 달 (dal, “moon”)