비행기

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airplane

비행기 — airplane

✈️ 비행기 = 飛 fly + 行 go + 機 machine: a fly-go machine

Three hanja blocks: 비 (飛, fly), 행 (行, go/travel), 기 (機, machine). 비행 alone means flight, and 기 is the same machine suffix found in 세탁기 (washing machine) and 계산기 (calculator). So 비행기 is literally a flight machine.

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