난무

Korean

Sino-Korean word from 亂舞 (“wild dance; raucous dance”). Compare Japanese 乱舞(らんぶ) (ranbu).

(SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [ˈna̠(ː)nmu]
Phonetic hangul: [난(ː)무]
- Though still prescribed in Standard Korean, most speakers in both Koreas no longer distinguish vowel length.

Romanizations
Revised Romanization^?	nanmu
Revised Romanization (translit.)^?	nanmu
McCune–Reischauer^?	nanmu
Yale Romanization^?	nānmu

South Korean Standard Language	난무(亂舞) (nanmu)
North Korean Standard Language	란무(亂舞) (ranmu)

난무 • (nanmu) (hanja 亂舞)

wild dance; dance without a choreography
- 2020 February 16, “조선시대 사형집행인, 망나니 [joseonsidae sahyeongjiphaeng'in, mangnani]”, in unipress.co.kr‎^[1]:
  형 을 집행할 때 망나니 는 칼 을 머리 위 로 쳐든 채 잠시 동안 난무를 추고, 스스로 흥분 상태 에 들어간 때 그 여세 로 칼 을 내리쳐 한칼 에 참했다고 한다.
  Hyeong-eul jiphaenghal ttae mangnani-neun kar-eul meori wi-ro cheodeun chae jamsi dong'an nanmu-reul chugo, seuseuro heungbun sangtae-e deureogan ttae geu yeose-ro kar-eul naericheo hankar-e chamhaetdago handa.
  He reports that when carrying out the sentence, the executioner would raise the sword above the head and dance wildly for a few moments; once he had entered a state of excitation, he would use that momentum to bring down the blade and decapitate [the criminal] in a single stroke.
(figuratively, derogatory) rampage, wild proliferation