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뜨뜻하다
warm
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뜨물
washing water of rice
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뜨악하다
unpleasant; reluctant
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뜨이다
be opened
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뜬구름
floating cloud
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뜬금없다
abrupt
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뜬금없이
out of the blue; out of nowhere
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뜬눈
wide-awake eyes
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뜬소문
false rumor
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뜯기다
have money taken; be stripped of
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뜯다
remove
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뜯어고치다
mend; rebuild
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뜯어내다
take off; tear off; pick
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뜯어말리다
stop; pull apart
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뜯어먹다
sponge off
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뜯어보다
open and look at
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뜰
yard
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뜸
(no equivalent expression)
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뜸하다
infrequent; scarce
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뜻
intention; opinion; wish; cause
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뜻글자
ideogram
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뜻깊다
meaningful; significant
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뜻대로
one's own way
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뜻밖
being unexpected
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뜻밖에
unexpectedly
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뜻있다
having an ambition; having an interest
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뜻풀이
definition
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뜻풀이되다
be defined
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뜻풀이하다
define
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뜻하다
mean; intend
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띄다
be seen
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띄어쓰기
word spacing
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띄엄띄엄
sparsely
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띄우다
fly; let fly; launch
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띠
belt
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띠다
put on; tie
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띠우다
(no equivalent expression)
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띵
woozily
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띵하다
buzzing; muddled
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ㄹ
r; l
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ㄹ더러
ldeoreo
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ㄹ랑
llang
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ㄹ랑은
llang-eun
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라
ra
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라고
rago
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라도
rado
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라든지
radeunji
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라디오
radio
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Beginner, intermediate, and advanced are the National Institute of Korean Language’s learner vocabulary grades. They are not official TOPIK levels or a prediction of test difficulty.