화요일
hwayoil · TOPIK 1
Tuesday
🔥 화요일 = 火 fire + 曜日 day of the week: fire day, Tuesday
화 (火) is fire, and 요일 (曜日) is the ending shared by every Korean weekday. Tuesday is named after Mars, the fire planet (화성), just as Spanish martes comes from Mars. Learn 요일 once, then only the first syllable changes.