치
Meanings
Noun
1. -'s worth of (after a time or number of people)
2. person (dated, derogatory, after an adnominal or determiner)
3. moha, delusion, ignorance (Buddhism)
4. only used in 치를 떨다 (chi-reul tteolda) and 치가 떨리다 (chi-ga tteollida).
5. synonym of 값 (gap, “value”) (mathematics, dated)
Pronunciation
chi
Examples3
세 달 치 월급
three months' worth of salary
치실질을 할 때마다 잇몸에서 피가 나요.
My gums bleed whenever I floss my teeth.
다름 아니오라 ᄉᆞ오 삭 젼의[…] 동슈문 밧긔 무더ᄉᆞᆸ더니 ᄉᆡ 쳥딕이 이종덕이가 몃십년 버렸던 치표을 졔가 쓸 거시라 ᄒᆞ이[…]
It is not anything different, but four or five months ago […] they buried him outside the little eastern gate, but Yi Jong-deok, the new doorman, is saying that he is [now] going to use this grave-site that he had left abandoned for several tens of years […]