갱지

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Korean

Pronunciation

  • (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA(key): ~
  • Phonetic hangul:
    • Though still prescribed in Standard Korean, most speakers in both Koreas no longer distinguish vowel length.
Romanizations
Revised Romanization?gaengji
Revised Romanization (translit.)?gaengji
McCune–Reischauer?kaengji
Yale Romanization?kāyngci

Etymology 1

Sino-Korean word from 更 (“again, renewed”) + 紙 (“paper”), because it is mostly recycled.

Noun

갱지 • (gaengji) (hanja 更紙)

  1. coarse, low-quality paper (most typically newsprint)

Etymology 2

Sino-Korean word from 更地, an orthographic borrowing from Japanese 更地(さらち) (sarachi).

Noun

갱지 • (gaengji) (hanja 更地)

  1. (real estate) type of vacant land where one can freely build something and there are no private law restrictions on construction
    Hypernym: 나지(裸地) (naji, “any vacant land, regardless of private law”)
    Coordinate term: 저지(底地) (jeoji, “vacant land with private law restrictions”)
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