딩딩

Korean

Etymology

Of native Korean origin.

Pronunciation
Romanizations
Revised Romanization?dingding
Revised Romanization (translit.)?dingding
McCune–Reischauer?tingding
Yale Romanization?tingting

Ideophone
Ablaut/harmonic pair
Yin-form 딩딩 (dingding)
Yang-form 댕댕 (daengdaeng)

딩딩 • (dingding)

  1. in a very visibly swelling manner
    온 몸이 딩딩 부었다.
    on mom-i dingding bueotda.
    His entire body is visibly swollen up.
  2. in a very hard and solid shape
  3. in an angry manner
  4. (onomatopoeia) with a plucking sound of a string instrument

Usage notes

Perhaps due to the ongoing merger of Korean /e/ and /ɛ/, this yin form uses the generally neutral /i/ instead of the expected /e/.

Derived terms
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