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)

1. 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, kwukyel