성묘

Korean

Etymology

    Sino-Korean word from 省墓, from 省 (“provincial; visit”) + 墓 (“tomb, graveyard, mausoleum”).

    Pronunciation

    Romanizations
    Revised Romanization?seongmyo
    Revised Romanization (translit.)?seongmyo
    McCune–Reischauer?sŏngmyo
    Yale Romanization?sengmyo

    Noun

    성묘 • (seongmyo) (hanja 省墓)

    1. one's ancestral tomb; the act of visiting and paying respects to one's ancestral tomb, attending to it, etc.
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