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tooth

Translations for tooth and their definitions

     1. det. this (proximal determiner)
           이 그림-을 본 적-이 있다. - I have seen this picture.
             (audio, Ko-이 그림을 본 적이 있다.ogg)
     2. pron. (literary, formal, or dialectal) this, this thing, this person
           uxi, 이 뭣고?, t=What is this?
           대한민국 시민-으로서 이-는 납득할 수 없습니다. - As a citizen of the Republic of Korea, this is not something I can accept.
     3. pron. (dialectal) here
     4. n. tooth, teeth (chiefly of a human)
           이-가 아프다 - for the teeth to hurt; to have a toothache
           이 없-으면 잇몸-으로 산다. - With no teeth, I'd live with my gum.
            
     5. n. the teeth of a saw or a similar jagged surface
           이 빠진 컵 - a chipped cup
             (audio, 이 빠진 컵.ogg)
     6. n. (rare) mechanical joint
     7. n. louse (tiny bloodsucking insect)
     8. Proper noun. (ko-regional, 이(李), 리(李))
     9. Proper noun. , the second most common Korean surname, used by roughly 7.3 million people in South Korea as of 2015
     10. n. (ko-regional, 이/리(理), 리(理))
     11. n. (East Asian philosophy, especially Confucianism) li, the underlying ordering principle of the cosmos
     12. n. (ko-regional, 이(利), 리(利))
     13. n. (possibly dated) profit, benefit
     14. n. (rare, dated) interest
     15. n. The Korean reading of the Latin alphabet letter e.
     16. n.          (mathematics) (In particular, the Korean reading of the number that is the base of natural logarithms (approximately 2.718281828459), written e.
     17. Proper noun. Alternative form of 伊, tr=I, t=Italy (in news headlines)


           이거 니 꺼-야? - Is this yours?
           니-가 나-를 어떻게 생각하-는데? - So what do you think about me?
     1. pron. (, Gyeongsang, southern Jeolla) Alternative form of 너, t=you.
           uxi, 니-는 이름-이 뭣-고?, t=What's your name?
     2. n. (Pyongan or in compounds) Alternative form of 이#tooth, alt=이, t=tooth


이빨
     1. n. ko-regional, 이빨, 이발
     2. n. (colloquial) tooth
           호랑이-의 이빨-에 물리면 살 가능성-이 거의 없다. - If you get bitten by a tiger, there is little chance of living.
           내 소원 중 하나-는 과거-로 돌아가 공룡-의 이빨-이 얼마나 큰지 내 눈-으로 확인해 보는 것-이다. - One of my wishes is to go back to the past and see with my own eyes how big a dinosaur's tooth is.


치아
     1. n. tooth



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