Things I notice while studying the Korean language
Saturday, July 14, 2018
What's a "tongue box"?
The Korean word for "drawer" is 서랍, which comes from the Chinese 舌盒 (설합). 舌 (설) means "tongue," and 盒 (합) means "box," so the Chinese apparently thought that a drawer looked like a tongue sticking out from a box.
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