tteok

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tteok

/tʌk/
/dʌk/

Sounds like tuck (one pronunciation), duck (one pronunciation) · Rhymes with -ʌk

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Borrowed from Korean 떡 (tteok).

noun tteoks · tteok

A type of sweet cake from Korea, made from rice flour. But my eye was immediately drawn to the add-on: country ham with tteok and honey.
Similar: dduk, toppoki

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noun a type of sweet cake from Korea, made from rice flour

한국어	떡 tteok
日本語	トック tokku
中文	打糕 dǎgāo, 米糕 mǐgāo, 蒸糕 zhēnggāo
Русский	тток ttok

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@misc{tteok_2026,
  title = {tteok},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/tteok},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}