호텔
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hotel
🏨 호텔 = English hotel, borrowed whole: ho-tel
A loanword from English, so the sound is the meaning. Korean has no final L sound issue here: 호 (ho) + 텔 (tel) maps syllable for syllable onto ho-tel. Many Korean travel words work this way, like 택시 (taxi) and 버스 (bus).