역사
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📜 역사 = 歷 (pass through) + 史 (record): a record of what has passed
역 is 歷, to pass through or experience, as in 경력 (career, where it reads 력). 사 is 史, a chronicle or scribe. Same hanja as Chinese lìshǐ and Japanese rekishi, so the word carries across all three languages.