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tteok · TOPIK 1
rice cake (Korean)
🍡 tteok sounds like tuck: tuck into a chewy rice cake
Say tteok with a tight, tense t, close to English tuck. Tuck in is what you do with food, and tteok is the chewy rice cake you tuck into. It is the first half of tteokbokki, which is literally stir-fried rice cake.