쓰다
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쓰다 is pressing one thing against another
The picture Whatever is in your hand pressed against something else. Pen to paper, money to a price, hat to a head. 쓰다 is putting something onto your head; 벗다 is taking it back off.
Where the picture shows up in 쓰다
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pen against paper
여기에 이름 좀 써 주세요.
yeo-gi-e i-reum jom sseo ju-se-yo
Could you write your name here?
A pen tip presses onto paper and travels rightward, leaving letters behind it
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a tool against a job
이 앱 한번 써 보세요.
i aep han-beon sseo bo-se-yo
Give this app a try — it's handy.
A finger comes down on a freshly installed app icon and presses it against a real task
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money against a price
이번 달에 돈을 너무 많이 썼어요.
i-beon da-re do-neul neo-mu ma-ni sseo-sseo-yo
I spent way too much this month.
Notes leave the wallet and stick to one price tag after another until the wallet is visibly thinner
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a hat against your head
밖에 추우니까 모자 쓰고 나가.
ba-kke chu-u-ni-kka mo-ja sseu-go na-ga
It's cold out — put a hat on.
Two hands lift a hat onto the head and press it down snugly toward the forehead
On the head it's 쓰다; on the body 입다; on the feet 신다.
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a false charge laid on your head
억울하게 누명을 썼어요.
eo-gul-ha-ge nu-myeong-eul sseo-sseo-yo
I got blamed for something I didn't do.
A sack with something you never did written on it is pulled down over your head
맛이 쓰다 ('to taste bitter') is a different word that merely sounds the same.
All of it in one picture
쓰다 is one motion: pressing what is in your hand against something else. Press a pen to paper and you are writing; press an app against a job and you are using it; press money against a price and you are spending. Press a hat to your head and you are wearing it; let a false charge be pressed down over your head and you are taking the blame for it. So 쓰다 is not a word with many meanings — it is one motion whose meaning changes with what you press against what.