Word details
떡
- Pronunciation
- 떡
- Part of speech
- noun
- Vocabulary level
- beginner
- Homonyms
- 2
- Application
- 떡이 [떠기 ]
떡도 [떡또 ]
떡만 [떵만 ]
tteok
rice cake: A dish made by steaming or boiling grain powder such as injeolmi, a rice cake coated with red bean powder or soy bean powder, and songpyeon, a half-moon-shaped rice cake, etc.
mat
(figurative) Hair that is matted due to lack of washing, etc.
Idioms
떡 먹듯
like eating tteok, rice cake
Easily; unconcernedly or indifferently.
떡 주무르듯
like kneading tteok, rice cake
As one wishes or likes.
떡을 치다
pound steamed rice into tteok, rice cake
For a quantity or degree to be sufficient.
떡이 되다
become tteok, rice cake
To be in a state where one cannot control one's body.
떡이 생기다
gain tteok, rice cake
To gain benefit.
Proverbs
떡 본 김에 굿 한다
perform a gut, an exorcism, as tteok, rice cake, is in sight
To have a good chance by accident to do something that one has planned to do.
떡 본 김에 제사 지낸다
perform an ancestral rite as tteok, rice cake, is in sight
To have a good chance by accident to do something that one has planned to do.
떡 줄 사람은 생각지도 않는데 김칫국부터 마신다
drink gimchi/kimchi liquid in advance even if the one who has some tteok, rice cake, is not thinking about giving them to others at all
To behave based on the hasty assumption that one will get something when the person who has that something is not even thinking about giving it away.