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텅 빈: Completely Empty or Hollow
2025-05-31
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Example Sentences#

  1. 저 벽 너머 텅 세상 향해1
    Towards that empty world beyond the walls.
    • 비다 means ‘to be empty’.
    • is a modifier that makes the preceding statement function as an adnominal phrase describing the following noun.
    • When combined with , it forms the emphatic expression 텅 빈, meaning ‘completely empty’ or ‘hollow’, emphasizing a strong sense of emptiness.

Footnotes#

  1. Sentence from The Red Ribbon.

텅 빈: Completely Empty or Hollow
https://koreanstorylab.com/posts/expressions/텅-빈-completely-empty-or-hollow/
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Korean Story Lab
Published at
2025-05-31