호주
hoju · TOPIK 1
Australia
🦘🐨 호주 = 濠洲: 濠 (ho) copies the sound of Australia's old Chinese name, 洲 = continent
호주 is the Korean reading of 濠洲. 濠 (호) was picked for sound, from an older Chinese rendering of Australia; 洲 (주) means continent, the same 주 as in 아시아주. So hoju is roughly the Ho continent.