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5. it's 탄락 in Hanja (Korean pronunciation)
Sun May 10, 2020, 12:36 AM
May 2020

Tan rak.

I found the character for Rak in Grant, character 1604, meaning permit, consent, promise, agree, license. Korean children always ask their parents Haw rak chu se yo. Please permit me to.... the radical is 言. +8 is sixteen strokes.

The meaning of Tan was more difficult. It is not used much in the Korean language, except in the verb tan ha ha da (to swallow). In my large Chinese dictionary, it says original meaning gulp down, swallow, engulf, envelope, conceal or destroy. (hanja te jeon page 262) the radical is goo 口 for mouth. It's seven strokes.

At first, I thought perhaps it may be the stamp for some kind of permit, or license to conduct a business, or consume resources. As a name I thought really reaching to lesser used meanings, hidden promise.

I'm just guessing, I asked a relative who knows a lot more Hanja than I, and they can't figure it out. But we aren't Chinese.

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