동
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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
Do you think you can finish the job properly only after such a delay?
to tie wood into a large bundle
nonsensical words that logic cannot reach
Jugong Apartment, Building 20
for the day to break