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yugyo · Confucianism

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Dictionary entry

NIKL target code 72396
Part of speech: 명사Pronunciation: 유교Level: Intermediate · NIKL learner grade
  1. 1.

    삼강오륜을 덕목으로 하며 사서삼경을 경전으로 하는, 종교로서의 유학.

    English: Confucianism — The religion taking the three principles and the five moral disciplines in human relations as virtues, whose central religious texts are the four books and five classics.

    Examples

    • 유교 문화.
    • 유교 사상.
    • 유교의 가르침.
    • 유교를 따르다.
    • 유교를 숭상하다.
    • 유교에서는 공자를 최고의 성인으로 꼽는다.
Origin
儒敎
Categories
종교 > 종교 유형 · 문화 비교하기

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