The Korean word for river is
강
Translations for river and their definitions
| 강 | |
| 1. n. river | |
| 2. n. (taxonomy) class | |
| 3. n. a kang; a traditional long platform used for heating in colder parts of China and suitable sleeping on |
| 수 | |
| 1. n. (board games) move | |
| 한 수-만 더 두면 외통수다. - Just one more move, and it's checkmate. | |
| 2. n. (originally board games, also figurative) ability, talent, skill | |
| 최소한 영어-는 내-가 걔보단 한 수 위-야. - At the very least, my skill in English is a notch better than hers. | |
| 3. n. number | |
| 4. n. (less common) destiny, fate (especially a favorable one) | |
| 5. det. a few, several | |
| 수 킬로미터 - several kilometers | |
| 수십 명 - several tens of people | |
| 6. n. (uncommon, usually used as a prefix) male (non-human) | |
| 7. n. water, as one of the Five Phases of East Asian cosmology | |
| 8. n. (short for, 수요일(水曜日):) Wednesday | |
| 9. n. embroidering (in cloth) | |
| 비단-에 수-를 놓다 - to embroider silk | |
| 10. n. (Buddhism, philosophy) vedanā (sensation in Buddhist philosophy) | |
| 11. n. (slang) bottom (in a gay sexual relationship) | |
| 12. n. (logging) pith (of wood) | |
| 13. n. (uncommon) bone marrow | |
| 14. Proper noun. (formal, academic) the Sui, a short-lived Chinese dynasty | |
| 15. n. (historical) From the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries, two government offices both belonging to the 정사품(正四品): | |
| 16. n. An office supervising court food supplies | |
| 17. n. An honorary office given to distant royal relatives |
| 가람 | |
| 1. n. (poetic) river | |
| 2. n. Buddhist temple; Buddhist monastery |
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