목요일

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Thursday

🌳 목요일 = 木 wood/tree + 曜日 day of the week: tree-day, Thursday

목 is the hanja 木 (wood, tree) and 요일 (曜日) means day of the week. Korean weekdays follow the planets: 목성 is Jupiter, the wood star, which matches Thursday as Jove's day in Romance languages (jueves, jeudi).

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