利

Glyph origin
– to reap grain with a knife.

Etymology
From (STEDT, ); cognate to 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Definitions

 * 1) benefit; advantage
 * 2) profit
 * 3)  interest
 * 4) to benefit; to be beneficial to
 * 5) favourable; successful
 * 6) sharp; sharp-edged
 * 1) favourable; successful
 * 2) sharp; sharp-edged

Descendants
Others:

Kanji

 * 1) profit, benefit

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) profit, benefit, advantage

Verb

 * 1) to benefit

Particle

 * 1) and connecting particle for nouns

Usage notes
was used to denote particularly intimate connections between nouns, compared to which had a more general use. The particle was totally extinct by the fifteenth century, and has no known Middle Korean reflex.

The sixth-century attestation given above is the reading of the tablet by linguist Lee Seungjae, who is the only person so far to have interpreted the text. It is possible that future interpreters will analyze differently.