Korean learner dictionary

단오

dano · Dano

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Dictionary entry

NIKL target code 68711

Part of speech: 명사Pronunciation: 단오

1.
한국의 명절의 하나. 음력 5월 5일로, 여자는 창포물에 머리를 감고 그네뛰기를 하며, 남자는 씨름을 하는 풍습이 있다.
English: Dano — One of the traditional Korean holidays; it falls on the fifth day of the fifth month by the lunar calendar; women wash their hair in water infused with acorus calamus, Sweet Flag, and play on geune, swings, while men enjoy Ssireum, Korean wrestling.