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둑
edit- 높은 길을 내려고 쌓은 언덕. 하천이나 호수의 물, 바닷물의 범람을 막기 위하여 설치하는, 흙이나 콘크리트 따위로 만든 구축물. 보를 만들거나 논밭을 보호할 목적으로 쌓은 언덕.
- dyke, levee, bank, embankment, dam [3]
- Comparatives
- dyke as "barrier to prevent flooding"
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- WHY & HOW it is vital
- Wikipedia: Yu the Great #Great Yu controls the waters (大禹, c. 2123–2025 BC)
- From: Wikipedia: Great Flood (China)
- He figures prominently in the Chinese legend of "Great Yu Who Controlled the Waters" (Chinese: 大禹治水; pinyin: Dà Yǔ Zhì Shuǐ).
- Still in 2020 summer, we saw such a disastrous flooding along the Yangtze River.
- The readers do miss the story of such a thrilling success he made by controlling the huge body of water that he may well be called the father of flood control, or 한물(hanmur, "flood") + 아비(abi, "father") in Korean wordplay.
- Korean dictionaries
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- See also
- ↑ https://ko.dict.naver.com/#/search?query=둑
- ↑ https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/둑
- ↑ Compare Korean/Words/담 as well as wikt: dam.
- ↑ cf. dike #English, ditch #English
- ↑ American English.
- ↑ Levee #
- A levee (/ˈlɛvi/), dike, dyke, embankment, floodbank or stopbank is an elongated naturally occurring ridge or artificially constructed fill or wall that regulates water levels.
- ↑ You might wonder why this should come first.