Sino-Korean · 한자어

花·話·畫 — 화 셋

화분에 불이 나요? — 꽃 화(花), 말씀 화(話), 그림 화(畫)

Does a flowerpot catch fire? — 花 flower, 話 speech, 畫 picture

문증 what the dictionary records

화분(花盆)·화단(花壇)·전화(電話)·대화(對話)·만화(漫畫). 한자·독음은 표준국어대사전·우리말샘 원어 칸.

'Is the 화 in flowerpot (화분) fire? Does it catch fire?' 'That 화 is flower.' 'And in phone (전화)? In comics (만화)?' Three characters, one sound.

花 — grass becoming a flower. 花盆 a flower pot, 花壇 a flower bed. 'The pot won't burn — it's flowers!'

話 — speech, with a tongue in it. 電話 lightning-speech: a phone. 對話 face-to-face speech. 'A phone is lightning talk — it goes that fast!'

畫 — a picture drawn with a brush. 漫畫 free-flowing pictures: comics. 'When you see 화, ask: flower, speech, or picture?'

'Water the pot, phone Duri and talk, read comics — three 화!'

화는 하나가 아니라, 꽃·말·그림 셋이었어요.