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  2. Doljanchi - Wikipedia

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    Dol or doljanchi (Korean: 돌; 돌잔치) is a Korean tradition that celebrates a baby's first birthday.. The tradition has been practiced since the early Joseon period. The ceremony typically involves the ritual offering of a samsinsang to the god Samsin (whom is said to watch over children), the preparation of a dolsang with various foods and ritual objects, and a doljabi (based on the ...

  3. Korean birthday celebrations - Wikipedia

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    Dol (doljanchi, or tol) is probably one of the best-known of the Korean birthday celebrations. Dol is celebrated for the first year of a child. [1] The first part of the dol celebration is prayer. Traditionally, Koreans would pray to two of the many Korean gods: Sansin (the mountain god) and Samsin (the birth goddess).

  4. Etiquette in South Korea - Wikipedia

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    A doljanchi or dol (돌잔치) is a traditional South Korean first birthday celebration. Long ago, when medical science was unable to cure many diseases and malnutrition was common, infants rarely survived to their first birthday.

  5. Birthday - Wikipedia

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    In Korea, many celebrate a traditional ceremony of Baek-il (Feast for the 100th day) and Doljanchi (child's first birthday). In Japan, people celebrate a Coming of Age Day for all those who have turned 18. In British Commonwealth nations, cards from the Royal Family are sent to those celebrating their 100th and 105th birthday and every year ...

  6. Wikipedia:WikiProject Spoken Wikipedia/Pronunciation task ...

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    The pronunciation task force aims to supply short recordings of difficult-to-pronounce terms. These recordings will supplement the IPA transcriptions recommended by Wikipedia:Manual of Style (pronunciation) and described in Help:IPA/English .

  7. Mujigae-tteok - Wikipedia

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    Mujigae-tteok (Korean: 무지개떡) or rainbow rice cake is a layered tteok (rice cake) of different colors resembling a rainbow. [1] It is used for special occasions such as a banquet, party, or feast like doljanchi (first birthday), hwangapjanchi (60th birthday).

  8. Zhuazhou - Wikipedia

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    Zhuazhou (抓週 – literally, "pick" and "anniversary", meaning "one-year-old catch" ) is a Chinese ritual held at a child's first birthday party, when the child is 1 year, i.e. typically twelve months since birth (although variable reckonings as to what constitutes a year of age for entitlement for zhuazhou exist), old.

  9. Anglophone pronunciation of foreign languages - Wikipedia

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    Speakers tend to pronounce the rhotic consonant as [ɹ], rather than an alveolar trill. Speakers of non-rhotic accents tend to mute the r when at end of a word or before a consonant. [5] Other pronunciation difficulties are related to spelling pronunciations of digraphs. The digraph sc represents /st͡s/, though speakers may substitute [s] or [sk].