음식

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food

🍚🥤 飮食 = drink (음) + eat (식): drink-and-eat means food

음 (飮) means drink, as in 음료 (beverage); 식 (食) means eat, as in 식당 (restaurant) and 식사 (meal). Korean names food by the two things you do with it: drinking and eating.

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