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Word Korean word Explanation Merriam-Webster Oxford Remarks Chaebol: jaebeol 재벌 (財閥) a large, usually family-owned, business group in South Korea (cognate with Japanese Zaibatsu) [1] [2] Hangul: hangeul 한글: Korean alphabet [3] Jeonse: jeonse 전세 (傳貰) a long-held renting arrangement where tenants pay lump-sum deposit for ...
The dictionary played a major role in the learning of English in Korea, and reportedly remained significant even until 1968, when a new major dictionary was published. [1] The dictionary also contained one of the earliest major romanization systems for Korean, which achieved some adoption by other missionaries. [2]
Konglish words may or may not have a similar meaning to the original word when used, and a well-known brand name can become a generalized trademark and replace the general word: older Korean people tend to use the word babari ("Burberry") or babari-koteu ("Burberry coat"), which came from Japanese bābari-kōto (meaning "gabardine raincoat") to ...
Naver Dictionary was launched in 1999, supporting the English language. [3] [4] It began launching mobile applications in 2010. [5] The product Line Dictionary, launched in 2014, was part of the platform. [2] By 2022, the platform reportedly had 60 different sub services, [6] and was the most popular online dictionary service in South Korea by ...
Basic Korean Dictionary (Korean: 한국어기초사전; Hanja: 韓國語基礎辭典) is an online learner's dictionary of the Korean language, launched on 5 October 2016 by the National Institute of Korean Language. [1]
Someone has just updated the romanisations of some of the words, e.g. changing kimchi to gimchi. I think this is incorrect because this is a list of English words. It isn't a list of Korean words and their current romanisations. The correct English spelling is currently 'kimchi' (1.8 million Google hits), not 'gimchi' (23,700 Google hits).
There are two competing arguments on the origin of kkondae. [3] The first theory claims that the word kondaegi, which means a pupa in the South Gyeongsang Province dialect, is the origin: The folded skin of a pupa reminds the wrinkles of an old man, so the word might have become a representation of an old man. [3]
Han-Han Dae Sajeon is the generic term for Korean hanja-to-hangul dictionaries. There are several such dictionaries from different publishers. The most comprehensive one, published by Dankook University Publishing, contains 53,667 Chinese characters and 420,269 compound words.