The Pieces Inside WordsDay 11 / 7 17 min 7 questions · 80% to pass

Korean words are made of pieces

Seven pieces, and the twenty words you already knew without knowing why

Split a familiar word into its pieces and use those pieces to read a word you have never seen.
Explained in English

You already know 학교. You probably know 학생 and 대학 too.

Look at them next to each other:

학교 · 학생 · 대학 · 학년

The same block keeps coming back. That is not a coincidence and it is not a spelling accident. 학 is a piece, and it means learning. Once you see it, you are no longer memorising four words. You are reading one piece four times.

1 · Seven pieces

Here are seven. You already know every word in the last column — that is the point. Nothing new is being asked of you today except to see the seam.

PieceMeansHanjaWords you know
학learning學학교 · 학생 · 대학 · 학년
교school, teaching校학교 · 교실 · 교사 · 교장
생life, being born生학생 · 생일 · 인생 · 선생님
대big, great大대학 · 대문 · 대회 · 확대
소small小소인 · 축소 · 소아과
중middle中중학교 · 중심 · 중국 · 집중
국country國한국 · 중국 · 국어 · 외국
The pieces, and words you already have
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