업
Meanings
Noun
1. work, job (especially lifelong work) (literary)
2. karma (Buddhism, figurative, figuratively)
3. [~신(神)] A household spirit of wealth, often thought to appear in the form of various wild animals. (folk religion, shamanism)
4. up (being)
Pronunciation
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Examples5
망나니 노릇이 그의 종생의 업이었다.
The business of executioner was his lifelong work.
잇따른 비운도 내 업이라 생각한다.
I consider the continuing tragedies, too, to be my karma.
片言隻辭 做作 업셔 十目所視 모도 아ᄂᆡ
As there is no falsehood in [my] short speech, the world's eyes are on it and all know this [to be true]
바닥 업슨 신을 신고 雪裏의 徘徊ᄒᆞ니[…]
as I wander about in the midst of the snow, wearing shoes that have no soles
바다 ᄒᆞᆫ 가온ᄃᆡ ᄲᅮ리 업슨 남기 나셔 가지ᄂᆞᆫ 열둘이오 닙흔 삼ᄇᆡᆨ 예순이라 그 남게 여름이 열니되 다만 둘이 열녓더라
In the middle of the ocean grows a tree with no roots, whose branches number twelve and whose leaves are three hundred sixty. Fruits grow on that tree−but no more than two fruits.