편지

Etymology
. First attested in a Korean text in the Samgang haengsildo (三綱行實圖 / 삼강행실도), 1511, in hanja form and with the meaning of "small piece of paper".

This is also the first attestation of the "letter" sense.

The hanja form is unetymological and first appears in Korean Classical Chinese sources in the eighteenth century.

Noun

 * 1) letter written message

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) small piece of paper
 * 2) letter