색깔

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color

🎨 색깔 = 색 (hanja 色, color) + 깔 (native suffix for hue or quality)

색 is the Sino-Korean reading of 色, the same character behind Chinese sè and Japanese shoku. 깔 is a native Korean suffix meaning quality or tone, also found in 빛깔 (hue of light) and 맛깔 (flavor). So 색깔 is literally color-quality.

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