itwu
English
Alternative forms
- (from Revised Romanization) idu
- (from McCune-Reischauer) idu
Etymology
Borrowed from Korean 이두(吏讀) (idu), in the Yale romanization.
Noun
itwu (uncountable)
- A method of annotating Classical Chinese text so that it can be read as Korean, using additional characters that represent Korean grammatical items.
- Coordinate terms: hyangchal, itwu, kwukyel