굵다
guk-da
Why a voice can be 'thick' too
The picture The girth of something long has swollen until one hand can barely close around it. 굵다 is girth swollen so it fills the hand; 가늘다 is girth shrunk so it slips between the fingers.
Where the picture shows up in 굵다
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the girth of a rope swells
굵은 줄로 묶어 주세요.
gul-geun jul-lo mu-kkeo ju-se-yo
Please tie it with thick rope.
A rope your fingers barely meet around when you grip it is holding the load down hard
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the girth of a stroke swells
제목은 굵게 써 주세요.
je-mo-geun guk-ge sseo ju-se-yo
Please write the title in bold.
The title, written with the brush pressed down, sits heavier than the other lines and catches the eye first from a distance
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the girth of an arm swells
팔이 굵어서 소매가 끼어요.
pa-ri gul-geo-seo so-mae-ga kki-eo-yo
My arms are thick, so the sleeves are tight.
You push your arm into the sleeve, but the arm's girth is bigger than the cloth's and it jams at the elbow
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the girth of a drop swells
빗방울이 굵어졌어요.
bit-bang-u-ri gul-geo-jeo-sseo-yo
The raindrops have got bigger.
Rain that was falling like powder grows into separate beads that land on the umbrella one thud at a time
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sound ringing like a thick cord
목소리가 굵으셔서 전화로도 잘 들려요.
mok-so-ri-ga gul-geu-syeo-seo jeon-hwa-ro-do jal deul-lyeo-yo
Your voice is deep, so it carries well on the phone.
The sound out of the throat is not a thin thread but a thick cord, ringing low and arriving intact on the other end of the line
Here sound is drawn as the thickness of a cord.
All of it in one picture
굵다 is one picture: the girth has swollen. Swell a rope's girth and pulling will not snap it; swell the strokes of a letter and the eye catches it first from across the room. Swell an arm's girth and the sleeve binds; swell a raindrop and one drop lands with a thud. And a voice that rings like a thick cord rather than a thin thread comes through clearly even down a phone line.