찌다
Meanings
Verb
1. to steam (food), to cook with steam (transitive)
2. to be hot and humid, to be sultry, to be sweltering (intransitive, of the weather)
3. to get fat, to gain weight (intransitive)
4. to ebb (intransitive, dated, of the tide)
Pronunciation
jjida
Examples9
살이 뒤룩뒤룩 찌다
to gain lots of weight
찌는 날씨 속에서도 인부들은 열심히 일했다.
Even in the sweltering weather, the labourers worked hard.
한여름이라 그런지 날씨가 정말 푹푹 찝니다.
It being midsummer, the weather is really hot and humid.
운동을 안 했으니 살이 쪘겠지 싶어.
[I] feel like [I] gained weight because [I] didn't exercise.
이 고양이는 너무 살이 쪘어.
This cat is very fat.
나 살 2kg이나 쪘어.
I gained no less than two kilograms.