색

saek · TOPIK 1

color

🎨 From hanja 色, the same root as Chinese sè and Japanese shoku: color

색 is the Sino-Korean reading of 色. It appears as the ending of color names: 빨간색 (red), 파란색 (blue), 노란색 (yellow). Sound hook: saek is close to sack, so think a sack of dye, one per color.

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