지금
jigeum
hanja 只今
now
Part of speech · noun / adverb
Pattern visualization
Syllable → jamo breakdown (RR romanization)
지
ㅈjinitial+ㅣimedial
금
ㄱginitial+ㅡeumedial+ㅁmfinal
只only
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今now
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5 strokes · 3.4s
4 strokes · 2.7s
Examples
- 지금 뭐 해요?What are you doing now?
- 지금 갈게요.I will go now.
Collocations
지금부터지금까지바로 지금
Mnemonic
jigeum (只今) "now" = 只 (ji, just/only) + 今 (geum, now) — "just now / right now". The 今 (now) is the same character in geum-nyeon... no — more relevantly, it marks the present moment from which -buteo (from) and -kkaji (until) measure time.
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