책

chaek · TOPIK 1

book

📖 chaek: check out a book — from hanja 冊, bamboo slips tied together

책 comes from the hanja 冊, a character that began as bamboo slips bound with cord, the earliest form of a book. Sound hook: chaek is close to check, and a book is what you check out of a library.

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