0 조상이 누구예요? 그럼 나는 아래?Who are 조상? Then am I below?
'At Chuseok we bow to our 조상. Who are they?' 'Your grandfather's grandfather's grandfather — those above us.' 'Above? In the sky?' 'Then am I below?'
Hanja Family · 한자 가족
祖·孫 — 할아비 조·손자 손
추석에 조상님한테 절해요, 조상이 누구예요? — 할아비 조(祖), 손자 손(孫), 나는 가운데
We bow to our 조상 at Chuseok — who are they? — 祖 ancestor, 孫 descendant, me in between
문증 what the dictionary records
조상(祖上)·조국(祖國)·손자(孫子)·손녀(孫女)·자손(子孫)·후손(後孫). 한자·독음은 표준국어대사전·우리말샘 원어 칸.
- 우리말샘 祖上·祖國·孫子·孫女·子孫·後孫
1 할아비 조 — 조상·조국祖: ancestors, fatherland
祖 — the ancestors you hold rites for. 祖上 those linked upward from you. 祖國 the land your ancestors lived in.
2 손자 손 — 손자·손녀·자손·후손孫: descendants
孫 — a child continuing from a child. 孫子 grandson, 孫女 granddaughter, 子孫 those linked downward, 後孫 those who come after.
3 나는 가운데I'm in the middle
Ancestors above, descendants below — me in the middle. 'Will I be an ancestor one day?' 'Long from now, your descendants will call you that.' 'Then I'd better bow well — so they bow to me!'
4 나중에 나한테도 절하게So they'll bow to me one day
'Ancestors — bow! I'm in the middle, linking up and down!'
조상은 위로 이어진 분들, 자손은 아래로 이어지는 우리였어요.