정지

• IPA^(key): /t͡ɕəŋd͡ʑi/

정지 (jeongji)

1. kitchen

• 부섭 (buseop)

Sino-Korean word from 停止 (“stop”).

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [t͡ɕʌ̹ŋd͡ʑi]
• Phonetic hangul: [정지]

정지 • (jeongji) (hanja 停止)

1. stop, halt
2. suspension, cessation
3. (Internet) suspension, block

   Synonym: 차단(遮斷) (chadan)

• 정지 (停止, jeongji) is used for concrete objects (e.g. people, cars), or for halts imposed externally (e.g. a revoked license, commercial activity halted due to anti-pandemic measures). 중지 (中止, jungji) cannot be used for objects, and has a stronger connotation of being voluntary or at least not forced externally (e.g. a government deciding to halt a certain program, a computer program ceasing to function).

정지 • (jeongji) (hanja 停止)

1. stop!

   Synonym: 섯! (seot!)

Sino-Korean word from 靜止 (“to be still”).

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [t͡ɕʌ̹ŋd͡ʑi]
• Phonetic hangul: [정지]

정지 • (jeongji) (hanja 靜止)

1. being static; being without movement; (physics) rest

Sino-Korean word from 整地 (“to flatten the earth”).

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [ˈt͡ɕɘ(ː)ŋd͡ʑi]
• Phonetic hangul: [정(ː)지]
  • Though still prescribed in Standard Korean, most speakers in both Koreas no longer distinguish vowel length.

정지 • (jeongji) (hanja 整地)

1. (construction) flattening the earth

   Synonym: 고르기 (goreugi)

   부지 정지 사업 ― buji jeongji sa'eop ― work to level the construction site

정지 • (jeongji)

1. (Gangwon, Jeolla dialect, Gyeongsang, Chungcheong) kitchen
   • 1982 January 18, 김채란 [gimchaeran], “그림의 열녀 [geurimui yeollyeo]”, in 한국구비문학대계 [han'gukgubimunhakdaegye]‎, 경상남도 의령군 부림면 [gyeongsangnamdo uiryeonggun burimmyeon]:

     그래서 그날 저녁에 정지 밥하는 사람을 밥을 벼락겉이 밥을 시키 가아 밥을 믹이고...

     Geuraeseo geunal jeonyeog-e jeongji baphaneun saram-eul bab-eul byeorakgeochi bab-eul siki ga-a bab-eul migigo...

     The person who was cooking in the kitchen that day had made the rice [as fast as] lightning and fed it [to the husband]...