전혀
jeon-hyeo
전혀 turns the bowl upside down
The picture A bowl held upside down and shaken, with nothing at all coming out of it. 전혀 is a flat zero; 별로 admits there is some, just low on the scale.
Where the picture shows up in 전혀
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not one line in your head
저는 전혀 몰랐어요.
jeo-neun jeon-hyeo mol-la-sseo-yo
I had no idea at all.
The drawer is pulled all the way out and turned over: not a single sheet inside.
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pain at zero
지금은 전혀 안 아파요.
ji-geu-meun jeon-hyeo an a-pa-yo
It doesn't hurt at all now.
The bar that measures pain stays flat against the baseline and never lifts off it.
Useful for making 'I'm fine' unmistakable at a clinic.
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obstacles at zero
전혀 문제없습니다.
jeon-hyeo mun-je-eop-sseum-ni-da
That's no problem at all.
A palm sweeps along the road ahead and finds it smooth, not one stone to catch on.
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overlap at zero
그건 전혀 다른 이야기예요.
geu-geon jeon-hyeo da-reun i-ya-gi-ye-yo
That's a completely different matter.
Two drawings held one over the other, with not a single line meeting.
Here it takes no negative verb — the zero is the overlap itself.
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tolerance at zero
매운 건 전혀 못 먹어요.
mae-un geon jeon-hyeo mot meo-geo-yo
I can't eat spicy food at all.
A hand goes up in front of the spicy dish and stops it right there.
An essential line in restaurants.
All of it in one picture
전혀 is the word that tips the bowl over for you to see. An empty drawer means you knew 전혀; a bar flat on the baseline means it hurts 전혀. A road with no stone in it means 전혀 a problem, two drawings with no line in common means 전혀 different, a hand blocking the dish means you can eat it 전혀. It does not say 'a small amount'. It says zero.