사랑

sarang · TOPIK 1

love

💌 sarang: SA-id it and my heart RANG — that is love

Split it as sa + rang: you SAid the words and my heart RANG like a bell. One folk etymology links 사랑 to the Sino-Korean 思量 (saryang), to think deeply of someone, so love is the person you keep thinking about.

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