동
Meanings
Noun
1. dong (submunicipal administrative unit) (South Korea)
2. ridgepole (architecture)
3. large building
4. large bundle, mass
5. the east
6. East Wind (mahjong)
7. east (before place names)
8. joint (connection point); (figurative) coherence, logic
9. interval, gap, pause (of time)
10. decorative sleeve patch on a jeogori (clothing)
11. ferrule at the tip of a smoking pipe (smoking)
12. sound of beating a small drum
13. chest protector used in kumdo (martial arts)
14. torso, trunk
15. copper
16. movement (rare)
17. bolting flowering stem (agriculture, of leaf or root vegetables, rare)
18. unmarried male (genealogy, rare)
19. lean part of an ore vein (mining, rare)
20. hardness; drillability (mining, of a rock, rare)
21. mnemonic sound for the second string on the left side of the left bridge, corresponding to the pitch 남려 (namnyeo) (rare)
22. mnemonic sound for the second string on the right side of the left bridge, corresponding to the pitch 태주 (taeju) (rare)
23. large embankment, large dike (rare)
Pronunciation
dong
Examples5
그렇게 동이 떠서야 일을 제대로 끝낼 수 있겠냐.
Do you think you can finish the job properly only after such a delay?
나무를 동으로 묶다
to tie wood into a large bundle
동이 닿지 않는 엉뚱한 소리
nonsensical words that logic cannot reach
주공 아파트 20동
Jugong Apartment, Building 20
동이 트다
for the day to break