Easy Korean - Unit 16: Word Builder 24 / ์‹ฌ (ๅฟƒ)

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Easy Korean Level 10 - Unit 16: Word Builder 24 / ์‹ฌ (ๅฟƒ)

Welcome to Word Builder 24! Todayโ€™s Chinese character root (Hanja) is ์‹ฌ (ๅฟƒ).

The meaning of this character is "Heart" or "Mind". Whenever you see "์‹ฌ" in a word related to feelings, thoughts, or the core of something, this is the root!

Vocabulary

  1. ์ง„์‹ฌ (็œžๅฟƒ) = sincerity, true heart
  2. ์ง„ (true) + ์‹ฌ (heart)
  3. ์ œ ์ง„์‹ฌ์„ ์•Œ์•„์ฃผ์„ธ์š”. = Please know my true feelings/sincerity.

  4. ์•ˆ์‹ฌ (ๅฎ‰ๅฟƒ) = relief, peace of mind

  5. ์•ˆ (peace/safety) + ์‹ฌ (mind)
  6. ์ด์ œ ์•ˆ์‹ฌ์ด ๋˜๋„ค์š”. = I feel relieved now.

  7. ๊ด€์‹ฌ (้—œๅฟƒ) = interest, attention

  8. ๊ด€ (connection) + ์‹ฌ (mind)
  9. ์ €๋Š” ํ•œ๊ตญ ๋ฌธํ™”์— ๊ด€์‹ฌ์ด ๋งŽ์•„์š”. = I have a lot of interest in Korean culture.

  10. ์˜์‹ฌ (็–‘ๅฟƒ) = doubt, suspicion

  11. ์˜ (doubt) + ์‹ฌ (mind)
  12. ์ €๋ฅผ ์˜์‹ฌํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฑฐ์˜ˆ์š”? = Are you doubting/suspecting me?

  13. ์ด๊ธฐ์‹ฌ (ๅˆฉๅทฑๅฟƒ) = selfishness

  14. ์ด (benefit) + ๊ธฐ (self) + ์‹ฌ (mind) -> Mind of benefiting oneself
  15. ๊ทธ์˜ ์ด๊ธฐ์‹ฌ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ๋ชจ๋‘๊ฐ€ ํž˜๋“ค์–ด์š”. = Everyone is having a hard time because of his selfishness.

  16. ํ•ต์‹ฌ (ๆ ธๅฟƒ) = core, key point

  17. ํ•ต (seed/core) + ์‹ฌ (heart)
  18. ์ด ๋ฌธ์ œ์˜ ํ•ต์‹ฌ์ด ๋ญ์˜ˆ์š”? = What is the core of this problem?

  19. ์‹ฌ๋ฆฌํ•™ (ๅฟƒ็†ๅญธ) = psychology

  20. ์‹ฌ (mind) + ๋ฆฌ (logic) + ํ•™ (study)
  21. ๋Œ€ํ•™๊ต์—์„œ ์‹ฌ๋ฆฌํ•™์„ ์ „๊ณตํ–ˆ์–ด์š”. = I majored in psychology at university.

Example Sentences

  • ์žฅ๋‚œ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ์ง„์‹ฌ์ด์—์š”. (It's not a joke, I'm serious/sincere.)
  • ๋ฌด์‚ฌํžˆ ๋„์ฐฉํ–ˆ๋‹ค๋‹ˆ ์•ˆ์‹ฌ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. (I'm relieved to hear you arrived safely.)
  • ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์˜ ์ผ์— ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ๊ด€์‹ฌ ๊ฐ–์ง€ ๋งˆ์„ธ์š”. (Don't pay too much attention to other people's business.)
  • ๋‰ด์Šค๋ฅผ ๋ฌด์กฐ๊ฑด ๋ฏฟ์ง€ ๋ง๊ณ  ์˜์‹ฌํ•ด ๋ด์•ผ ํ•ด์š”. (Don't just believe the news unconditionally, you should doubt it.)
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