아이

Etymology
from earlier. While the word is native, the second syllable was identified already in the 8th-century hyangga poem Anmin-ga with 🇨🇬. Historically, the word was often mistakenly perceived as Sino-Korean, with the spelling, a phono-semantic matching. See.

Noun

 * 1) child, kid
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Usage notes

 * As is extremely colloquial,  is sometimes used to replace it in less colloquial writing, especially in the pronominal forms, , . This is less common in speech.
 * Such a replacement is even rarer when is being used non-pronominally, because  is perceived as being neither sufficiently colloquial as  nor sufficiently non-colloquial as e.g. . It is very normal, if highly colloquial, to refer to American people in general as, but  will usually refer specifically to American children.