갱지

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Korean

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Pronunciation

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  • (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA(key): [ˈkɛ(ː)ŋd͡ʑi] ~ [ˈke̞(ː)ŋd͡ʑi]
  • Phonetic hangul: [(ː)/(ː)]
    • Though still prescribed in Standard Korean, most speakers in both Koreas no longer distinguish vowel length.
Romanizations
Revised Romanization?gaengji
Revised Romanization (translit.)?gaengji
McCune–Reischauer?kaengji
Yale Romanization?kāyngci

Etymology 1

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Sino-Korean word from (again, renewed) + (paper), because it is mostly recycled.

Noun

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갱지 (gaengji) (hanja 更紙)

  1. coarse, low-quality paper (most typically newsprint)

Etymology 2

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Sino-Korean word from 更地, an orthographic borrowing from Japanese 更地(さらち) (sarachi).

Noun

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갱지 (gaengji) (hanja 更地)

  1. (real estate) type of vacant land where one can freely build something and there are no private law restrictions on construction
    Hypernym: 나지(裸地) (naji, any vacant land, regardless of private law)
    Coordinate term: 저지(底地) (jeoji, vacant land with private law restrictions)
Derived terms
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