0 바닷물은 왜 짜요?Why is the sea salty?
'Why is the sea salty? Rivers aren't.' 'Salt from the land rides the rivers down to the sea.' 'Salt rides a river? On a boat?' 'So the sea is a salt-collecting bucket?'
Sino-Korean · 한자어
海 — 바다 해
바닷물은 왜 짜요? 강물은 안 짠데요 — 바다 해(海)는 물의 어머니
Why is the sea salty when rivers aren't? — 海, the mother of waters
문증 what the dictionary records
해수(海水)·해양(海洋)·해외(海外)·해변(海邊). 📖 海 = 氵 + 每(안에 母). 「물의 어머니」는 전통 풀이. 한자·독음은 표준국어대사전·우리말샘 원어 칸.
- 우리말샘 海水·海洋·海外·海邊
1 바다 해 — 물의 어머니海: the mother of waters
海 — water plus 每, with 母 (mother) inside: the water all waters return to. 海水 seawater. Rain dissolves a little salt from the soil; rivers carry it down; the sea keeps the salt and sends only water back to the sky. So it gets saltier.
2 해양·해외·해변Ocean, overseas, seashore
海洋 the wide ocean, 海外 beyond the sea — abroad, 海邊 the sea's edge.
3 바닷물은 못 마셔요You can't drink seawater
'Rivers aren't salty; the sea is — it's where salt gathers.' 'Then I can't drink seawater.' 'That's why there's 수도, like in the volcano episode.'
4 해변에서 모래성 선수Sandcastle champion at the beach
'Sea, you're the salt-collecting champion! I'm the sandcastle champion at the beach!'
바다가 짠 건 땅의 소금이 모여서, 해는 물의 어머니였어요.