센티미터
sentimiteo · TOPIK 1
centimeter
📏 센티미터 = sen-ti-mi-teo, the English word centimeter in Hangul
A direct loanword from English. Korean has no final r sound here, so -meter becomes 미터 (mi-teo), the same ending found in 미터 (meter) and 킬로미터 (kilometer). 센티 (sen-ti) is simply centi-.