Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

samgyetang

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: sam-gyetang
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A Korean soup consisting of a young chicken filled with rice, garlic and jujube and spiced with ginseng.

Uncountable

Etymology

Borrowed from Korean 삼계탕(蔘鷄湯) (samgyetang), Sino-Korean word literally meaning “chicken soup with ginseng”.

Origin

Source language: Korean

Word Breakdown

Root: 삼계탕(蔘鷄湯)

Usage

Uncountable

Questions

What does samgyetang mean?: A Korean soup consisting of a young chicken filled with rice, garlic and jujube and spiced with ginseng.
Where does samgyetang come from?: It is traced to Korean.

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