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ddakji

ddakji noun: a folded square of paper used in several Korean games.

Noun

ddakji (countable and uncountable, plural ddakji)

  1. (countable) A folded square of paper used in several Korean games.
  2. (uncountable) A Korean game where a player must throw their ddakji at the other player's ddakji to try and flip it.
    • Instead, ddakji was played for dramatic effect earlier in the season — pitting two men who had forged a sweet bond against each other, making one of them briefly believe he’d been eliminated by his friend.2023 December 7, Maya Salam, “‘Squid Game: The Challenge’: Hits, Misses and the Bizarre Ending”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 08 Dec 2023

Forms of ddakji

pluralddakji

Origin of ddakji

Borrowed from Korean 딱지 (ttakji).

Questions about ddakji

What does ddakji mean?
Ddakji means a folded square of paper used in several Korean games.
What part of speech is ddakji?
Ddakji is a noun.
What is the plural of ddakji?
The plural of ddakji is ddakji.

Words near ddakji in the dictionary

  1. DD/LB
  2. DD/LG
  3. DD214
  4. DD214s
  5. DDA
  6. ddakji
  7. DDAs
  8. DDAT
  9. ddATP
  10. DDBA
  11. DDBJ

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