똑바로

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straight, upright

📏 똑 (exactly) + 바로 (straight, right) = exactly straight

바로 comes from 바르다, to be straight or correct, and on its own means directly or right away. 똑 is an intensifier meaning exactly, as in 똑같다 (exactly the same). Together: precisely straight, upright.

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