野

Glyph origin
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Etymology 1
Various etymologies have been proposed:
 * From a hypothetical common Sino-Tibetan *la (“area far from settlements; wilderness”): compare 🇨🇬 ;
 * Related to 🇨🇬: compare 🇨🇬 ;
 * From a Sino-Tibetan root meaning “hut; pantry”: compare 🇨🇬.

Definitions

 * 1) countryside; field; outskirts; wilderness
 * 2) plain; open country; open space
 * 3) area; region; boundary
 * 4) (among) the people; not in power; out of office
 * 5) unadorned; unaffected; simple; plain
 * 6) wild; not domesticated; stray
 * 7) feral; untamed; unrestrained
 * 8) rough; coarse; violent; boorish; rude
 * 9) unofficial; informal; illegal
 * 10)  very; quite

Readings
As the original form of :

Etymology 1
→ →

From.

Noun

 * 1) an area, field
 * 2) the hidden part of a structure
 * 1) the hidden part of a structure

Prefix

 * 1) wild
 * 2) rustic, unsophisticated
 * 1) rustic, unsophisticated

Etymology 2
From.

Affix

 * 1) field, plain
 * 2) natural, pristine
 * 3) rough
 * 4) bare, open
 * 5) extant, scope, sphere
 * 6) civil, non-governmental
 * 7)  ground

Noun

 * 1) an area, field
 * 2) a private or civil matter
 * 1) a private or civil matter

Adjective

 * 1)  rustic, unsophisticated

Etymology
From.

Usage notes
A common convention in news headlines, this is almost always written solely in the Hanja form, even in contemporary Korean text otherwise devoid of any Hanja.

Etymology 1
From.

Pronunciation appears to be distinct from.

Noun

 * 1) an area, field

Etymology 2
The second sense is based on scholars' reading of , , , etc. as  instead of  before regional differences in Old Japanese terms of were discovered.

Noun

 * 1)  an area, field
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