Word details
콩
- Pronunciation
- 콩
- Part of speech
- noun
- Vocabulary level
- beginner
bean
A round grain with a thin, yellow or black skin that is used as an ingredient in tofu, soy bean paste, etc.
Idioms
콩 볶듯
like roasting beans
An expression used to describe the loud sound made when shooting a gun.
like roasting beans
An expression used to describe a behavioral pattern of constantly pestering and annoying someone.
Proverbs
콩 심은 데 콩 나고 팥 심은 데 팥 난다
Beans grow where beans were sowed, red beans grow where red beans were sowed; As one sows, so shall he reap; An onion will not produce a rose
Everything produces a result that corresponds to its cause.
콩으로 메주를 쑨다 하여도 곧이듣지 않는다
not believe someon's claim that a fermented soybean lump is made from beans; You have cried wolf too many times
To not believe what someone says even if he/she tells the truth.