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Etymology 1
Imitative. Compare 🇨🇬.

Interjection

 * 1) uh-huh, yes
 * 2) ah!, oh!;
 * 3) huh?;

Usage notes

 * Korean has a number of words for "yes". is highly polite and formal, appropriate in an interview;  is polite but less formal, appropriate in a conversation with parents; and  and  are  plain and non-formal, appropriate in a conversation with friends. Among the latter two,  has a more strongly positive sense than.

Etymology 2
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Suffix

 * 1) language, lect

Etymology 3
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Noun

 * 1)  , a tiger-shaped percussion instrument

Etymology 5
Modern Korean reading of various Chinese characters.