맛

mat · TOPIK 1

taste, flavor

👅🍲 mat sounds like mmm + eat: the mmm you say when food has good taste

맛 (mat) starts with the same m as mmm, the sound people make over good flavor. It also sits inside 맛있다 (masitda), literally taste exists = delicious, and 맛없다, taste is absent = bland.

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