과자

gwaja · TOPIK 1

snack, cookie, biscuit

🍪 菓子 = fruit/confection (과) + small thing (자); same word as Japanese kashi

From hanja 菓子: 菓 (과) is confection, originally fruit, and 子 (자) is a noun suffix for small things. Japanese reads the same characters as kashi (okashi = sweets), so the two words are cousins.

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