Etymology

sahwa

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Today it means: A series of political purges in the late 15th and 16th centuries, during which sarim scholars were persecuted by political rivals. Full definition →

Korean 사화
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The story

  1. Korean · borrowed from사화
  2. English todaysahwa

From Korean 사화 (sahwa).

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