성화
Meanings
Noun
1. pestering; insisting on something one wants to do
2. sacred flame
3. Olympic flame
4. religious painting; icon (Christianity)
5. making or becoming holy
a. the monarch's moral transformation of his subjects towards virtue (Confucianism)
b. sanctification; the believer's moral transformation by the grace of God (Christianity)
Pronunciation
seonghwa
Examples2
이슬람의 도래 이후 사산조 페르시아의 3대 성화는 모두 소진되었다.
After the coming of Islam, the three great sacred flames of Sasanian Persia were all extinguished.
결혼식을 다녀온 아이들은 자기들도 결혼하고 싶다고 성화였다.
The children who had come back from the wedding were loudly insistent that they wanted to get married, too.