국자

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Korean

Pronunciation

Romanizations
Revised Romanization?gukja
Revised Romanization (translit.)?gugja
McCune–Reischauer?kukcha
Yale Romanization?kwukca

Etymology 1

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국자 (gukja)

Of native Korean origin.

Noun

국자 (gukja)

  1. ladle

Etymology 2

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Examples (Han characters used only in Korea)

(, dap)
(, dol)
(, so)
(, gi)

Sino-Korean word from 國字, from (country; nation) + (writing). Compare Japanese 国字 (kokuji)

Noun

국자 (gukja) (hanja 國字)

  1. gukja (Han characters invented outside of China)
  2. national script, particularly hangul, the Korean national script
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