TITLE: 七 , Seven, 7, 칠 (adjective of 치다 ; Sever, Cut) in KR AUTHOR: SEOK WOO YANG, MD & PhD. CONTACT: E.mail: soplab@outlook.kr DATE: 2026.05.17. REFERENCE: God's Hidden Code in Korean Words (C-2015-021846) CONTENT: The Hanja for the number 7 (seven) is 七 . In Korean, 七 is pronounced “Chil” ( 칠 ). The number 7 in the Bible primarily symbolizes completeness, perfection, fullness, divine order, and spiritual wholeness. In traditional Chinese character analysis, 七 (q ī , “ seven ” ) is a phonetic loan character ( 假借字 ). Its original meaning was unrelated to the numeral and instead depicted “to cut” or “to sever,” a sense later transferred to the character 切 (qiè, “to cut”). In my personal opinion, t he word ' sever ' is similar to ' seven ' both in pronunciation and in that the HanJa 七 (7, seven) contains the meaning of ' cut '. How 七 Became the Numeral “Seven” 七 originally functioned as a symbol for cutting or dividi...