# 살

| 살 | U+C0B4, &#49332; HANGUL SYLLABLE SAL |
| Composition: | ㅅ + ㅏ + ㄹ |
| ← 삳 [U+C0B3] | Hangul Syllables | 삵 → [U+C0B5] |
사삭삮삯산삱삲 삳살삵삶삷삸삹 삺삻삼삽삾삿샀 상샂샃샄샅샆샇 :
| 삐 ← | → 새 |

## Korean
### Etymology 1

First attested in the Seokbo sangjeol (釋譜詳節 / 석보상절), 1447, as Middle Korean ᄉᆞᆶ〮 (Yale: sólh).

#### Pronunciation

* (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA: [sʰa̠ɭ]
** Audio:(file)
* Phonetic hangul: [살]

#### Noun

살 • (sal)
* flesh; skin
* meat / flesh (of fruits, animals, etc.)

##### Derived terms

* 굳은살 (gudeunsal)
* 뱃살 (baetsal)
* 살가죽 (salgajuk)
* 살갗 (salgat)
* 살결 (salgyeol)
* 살색 (salsaek)
* 살찌다 (saljjida)
* 삼겹살 (samgyeopsal)
* 튼살 (teunsal)
* 푸석살 (puseoksal)

##### See also

* 뼈 (ppyeo, “bone”)

### Etymology 2

First attested in the Jīlín lèishì (鷄林類事 / 계림유사), 1103, as Late Old Korean 虄. In the hangul script, first attested in the Yongbi eocheon'ga (龍飛御天歌 / 용비어천가), 1447, as Middle Korean 살〮 (Yale: sál).
Possibly related to Japanese 幸 (satsu, sachi, “hunting, for hunting”, related to ideas of arrows).

#### Pronunciation

* (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA: [sʰa̠ɭ]
** Audio:(file)
* Phonetic hangul: [살]

#### Noun

살 • (sal)
* arrow
    Synonym: (more common) 화살 (hwasal)
* frame; support:
** spoke (on a wheel)
** lattice / latticework or bars (on a door or window)
** rib / frame (of a fan, kite, umbrella, etc.)
* teeth (of a comb)
    Synonym: 빗살 (bitsal)
* fishing weir
    Synonym: 어살 (eosal)
* sting (of bees, etc.)
* (chiefly in compounds)
** beam; flow, current
    햇살 ― haetsal
** crease; wrinkle
    눈살 ― nunsal
* pressed patterns (on rice cake)
    살을 박다/찍다 ― sar-eul bakda/jjikda ― to press patterns on rice cake

##### Derived terms

* 구김살 (gugimsal)
* 눈살 (nunsal)
* 떡살 (tteoksal)
* 문살 (munsal)
* 물살 (mulsal)
* 부챗살 (buchaetsal)
* 빗살 (bitsal)
* 살창 (salchang)
* 어둠살 (eodumsal)
* 어살 (eosal)
* 우산살 (usansal)
* 이맛살 (imatsal)
* 주름살 (jureumsal)
* 창살 (changsal)
* 창쌀 (changssal)
* 햇살 (haetsal)
* 화살 (hwasal)

### Etymology 3

First attested in the Worin seokbo (月印釋譜 / 월인석보), 1459, as Middle Korean 설〯 (Yale: sěl).
The word 설 (seol, “Lunar New Year”) originally meant both "New Year" and "year of age". The two terms are connected; in Korea, one gains a new year of age at every New Year (so that all people born in the same year have the same age). In the eighteenth century, speakers created the new term 살 (sal, “year of age”) as a yang-vowel alternation of 설 (seol), and the original term came to mean only the New Year. 설 (seol) and 살 (sal) are one of a number of Korean noun pairs with yin-yang vowel alternation which were originally the same word.

#### Pronunciation

* (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA: [sʰa̠ɭ]
** Audio:(file)
* Phonetic hangul: [살]

#### Counter

살 • (sal)
* years of age (of a person) (takes native numerals)
    Synonym: 세(歲) (se)
    몇 살입니까?myeot sar-imnikka?How old are [you]?(literally, “How many years of age are [you]?”)
       Audio (South Korea):(file)

##### Usage notes

* In traditional East Asian age reckoning, a baby is one year old at birth and turns two years old on New Year's Day. Thus everyone born in the same year is the same age: the current year subtracted by the year of birth, plus one.

##### See also

* 나이 (nai, “age”)

### Etymology 4

Sino-Korean word from 煞 (“malignant deity”).

#### Pronunciation

* (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA: [sʰa̠ɭ]
** Audio:(file)
* Phonetic hangul: [살]

#### Noun

살 • (sal) (hanja 煞)
* (Korean folk religion) evil influence; damnation

##### Derived terms

* 살풀이 (salpuri, “salvation from damnation”)
* See the hanja entry at 煞 for Sino-Korean compounds of 살 (煞, sal).

##### See also

* 마(魔) (ma)

### Etymology 5

See the main entry.

#### Pronunciation

* (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA: [sʰa̠(ː)ɭ]
** Audio:(file)
* Phonetic hangul: [살(ː)]
** Though still prescribed in Standard Korean, most speakers in both Koreas no longer distinguish vowel length.

#### Verb

살 • (sal)
* irrealis adnominal form of 살다 (salda, “to live”)

## Middle Korean
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sál/

### Noun

살〮 (sál) (locative 사〮래〮 (sál-áy))
* arrow
** 1459, 月印釋譜 / 월인석보 [Worin seokbo], page 10:26b:五(ᅌᅩᆼ〯)百(ᄇᆡᆨ〮) 群(꾼)賊(쯕〮)이〮 ᄒᆞᆫ 사〮래〮 다〯 디니〮 […]NGWǑ.PÓYK KKWÙN.CCÚK-í hòn sál-áy tǎ tìní […] as the group of five hundred bandits falls to a single arrow […]
* spoke (on a wheel)
** 1459, 月印釋譜 / 월인석보 [Worin seokbo], page 2:38a:輻(복〮)은〮 술윗〮 사〮리오〮 輪(륜)은〮 바회〮라〮PWÓK-ún swùlGwúy-s sál-ìGwó LYWÙN-ún pàhwóy-lá[The Chinese word] 輻 means, "spokes on a cart[wheel]," and [the Chinese word] 輪 means, "wheel."

#### Descendants

* Korean: 살 (sal)