빼다
ppae-da
Pulling a tooth and subtracting tax are the same motion
The picture Something lodged inside is drawn out, leaving its place empty and the whole smaller. 빼다 draws something out and the whole shrinks; 넣다 puts something in and the whole grows.
Where the picture shows up in 빼다
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what was inserted slides out
여기서 카드 빼세요.
yeo-gi-seo ka-deu ppae-se-yo
Take your card out here.
Fingers gripping the card in the terminal and drawing it straight out of the slot
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what was rooted is pulled out
어제 사랑니를 뺐어요.
eo-je sa-rang-ni-reul ppae-sseo-yo
I had a wisdom tooth pulled yesterday.
A molar rooted in the gum gripped by forceps and pulled clean out
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a name comes out of the list
이번 달은 명단에서 저를 빼 주세요.
i-beon da-reun myeong-dan-e-seo jeo-reul ppae ju-se-yo
Please leave me off the list this month.
One name on the list struck through and that whole line cut away
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an amount comes out of the total
월급에서 세금을 빼면 얼마 안 남아요.
wol-geu-be-seo se-geu-meul ppae-myeon eol-ma an na-ma-yo
After tax comes out of the pay, not much is left.
Notes worth the tax lifted off the pay packet and set aside
This is also the ordinary word for subtraction in arithmetic.
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weight comes off the body
살을 좀 빼려고 걷고 있어요.
sa-reul jom ppae-ryeo-go geot-go i-sseo-yo
I'm walking to take some weight off.
Flesh coming off the waist a little at a time until the belt pulls in one notch
All of it in one picture
빼다 is one picture: drawing out what was in, so that much less is left. The card comes out and the slot is empty; the tooth comes out and the gum has a gap; a name comes out and the list is one line shorter; the tax comes out and the pay is thinner; weight comes off and the body is smaller. So wherever 빼다 goes, something is drawn out and the whole is lighter by exactly that much.