피아노

piano · TOPIK 1

piano

🎹 피아노 = pi-a-no, a straight loanword: it is just piano in Hangul

Korean borrowed the word directly, so the three blocks spell the sound: 피 (pi) + 아 (a) + 노 (no). Read the syllables aloud and you have already said the English word. The original Italian pianoforte means soft-loud.

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