수

Etymology 1
, from the Middle Korean reading. However, the dependent noun is usually not written in hanja.

The word somewhat displaced the native dependent noun.

Dependent noun

 * 1)  way, means, possibility, ability;

Usage notes

 * Some speakers mistakenly believe that the element in the suffix  is this dependent noun, but in reality this is a reflex of Middle Korean.

Noun

 * 1)  move
 * 2)  ability, talent, skill
 * 1)  ability, talent, skill

Suffix

 * 1) -er; -ist

Etymology 2
, from the Middle Korean reading.

Noun

 * 1) number
 * 2)  destiny, fate (especially a favorable one)
 * 1)  destiny, fate (especially a favorable one)

Determiner

 * 1) a few, several

Usage notes
When used before a numeral, this word is not spaced.

Noun

 * 1)  male (non-human)

Prefix

 * 1) male (non-human)
 * 2)  protruding
 * 1)  protruding

Usage notes
As the relic of the Middle Korean coda now lost in Modern Korean, the prefix usually aspirates a subsequent plosive.

Etymology 4
, from the Middle Korean reading.

Noun

 * 1) water, as one of the Five Phases of East Asian cosmology
 * 2)  Wednesday
 * 1)  Wednesday
 * 1)  Wednesday
 * 1)  Wednesday

Etymology 5
, from the Middle Korean reading.

Noun

 * 1) embroidering (in cloth)

Derived terms

 * 수(繡)-를 놓다

Etymology 6
, from the Middle Korean reading.

Etymology 7
, from the Middle Korean reading.

The sense of "bottom" is.

Noun

 * 1)   (sensation in Buddhist philosophy)
 * 2)  bottom (in a gay sexual relationship)

Etymology 8
, from the Middle Korean reading.

Noun

 * 1)  pith (of wood)
 * 2)  bone marrow
 * 1)  bone marrow

Etymology 9
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Proper noun

 * 1)  the Sui, a short-lived Chinese dynasty

Usage notes
As with all historical Chinese polities with a single-character name, the Sui are usually referred to with the suffix as  outside of academia.

Etymology 10
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Noun

 * 1)  From the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries, two government offices both belonging to the :
 * 2) An office supervising court food supplies
 * 3) An honorary office given to distant royal relatives

Etymology 11
Korean reading of various Chinese characters.