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  2. Korean profanity - Wikipedia

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    It is a compound of the word 병; 病; byeong, meaning "of disease" or "diseased", and the word 신; 身; sin, a word meaning "body" originating from the Chinese character. This word originally refers to disabled individuals, but in modern Korean is commonly used as an insult with meanings varying contextually from "jerk" to "dumbass" or "dickhead"

  3. Talk:List of English words of Korean origin - Wikipedia

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    The meaning of the word "chogi," defined by a Japanese friend, was "over there." My tutor did not mention it being of Korean origin. i dunno what kind of "japanese friend" this is, b/c he was answering IN KOREAN! japanese word for over there is "asoko". korean is the lang with yogi and chogi for here and there.

  4. Joon-ki - Wikipedia

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    Joon-ki, also spelled Joon-gi, is a Korean masculine given name. [1] Its meaning differs based on the hanja used to write each syllable of the name. There are 34 hanja with the reading "joon" and 68 hanja with the reading "ki" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be registered for use in given names.

  5. Kiai - Wikipedia

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    The term is a compound of ki (Japanese: 気), meaning "energy" or "mood" and a(u) (Japanese: 合, infinitive ai), an emphatic marker. [1] The same concept is known as kihap in many Korean martial arts, such as taekwondo and Tang Soo Do, ki being the energy and hap meaning to join, to harmonize or to amplify, based on the Korean reading of the same characters; its Hangul spelling is 기합.

  6. Ki (Korean surname) - Wikipedia

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    Ki (Korean: 기) also romanized as Gi or Kee, is a Korean family name. According to the 2015 census, there were 29,062 people with this surname in South Korea. According to the 2015 census, there were 29,062 people with this surname in South Korea.

  7. Ki-moon - Wikipedia

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    Ki-moon, also spelled Gi-mun, is a Korean masculine given name.Its meaning differs based on the hanja used to write each syllable of the name. There are 68 hanja with the reading "ki" and 14 hanja with the reading "moon" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be registered for use in given names. [1]

  8. Jjokbari - Wikipedia

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    Jjokbari (Korean: 쪽발이, borrowed into Japanese as チョッパリ, romaji choppari) is a Korean language ethnic slur which may refer to Japanese citizens or people of Japanese ancestry. [1] A variation on the slur, ban-jjokbari , meaning literally " half-jjokbari ", has been used to refer to mixed Japanese-Korean people, as well as Koreans ...

  9. Comparison of Japanese and Korean - Wikipedia

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    In addition to the above, there may be a relation between the words for morning (朝, asa; 아침, achim). A historical variant in Korean may have been pronounced "asa" (see: Asadal). There is a minority theory attributing the name of the Japanese city of Nara to a loanword from Korean (see: Nara, Nara#Etymology).