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keopi · TOPIK 1

coffee

☕ keopi = English coffee; Korean has no f, so f becomes p

A loanword from English. Hangul has no f sound, so it is swapped for ㅍ (p): cof-fee turns into keo-pi. The same swap shows up in 파일 (pail, file) and 포크 (pokeu, fork).

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