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요요하다

Pronunciation: [ˈjo(ː)joɦa̠da̠]

“요요하다” is a Korean word. Its 18 meanings in English:

adjective

  1. intelligent; clever
  2. young and elegant
  3. pleased; amiable; cheerful
  4. slowly billowing upwards; curling upwards; spiralling up
  5. waving
  6. lingering in the air
  7. hollow; empty
  8. lonely; lonesome
  9. very few; hardly any; handful of
  10. vast; spacious
  11. clear and melodious
  12. far away; long way off; distant; remote
  13. high and steep; tall and lofty
  14. upright; honest
  15. chaotic; disordered; confused

verb

  1. swaying; shaking
  2. uneasy; disturbed; frantic
  3. distant; faraway

Etymology

요요(了了) (yoyo) + -하다 (-hada, “to do”, light verb deriving adjectives).

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