Example sentences for: guk

How can you use “guk” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The GUK domain shows a high degree of similarity to guanylate kinase enzyme, which converts GMP to GDP using ATP as a phosphate donor.

  • “Gook: Derisive slang for Koreans; a corruption of the Korean han'guk saram, which means Korean.

  • To call a brown-skinned person a gook may be reinforced by words in his own language, Chinese Mee Gook for “beautiful country,” or Korean Myguk (My = “America” + guk = “country”), but the word is extraordinarily derogatory, reinforced by, if not derived from the common English slang gobbledegook (the brown man's language) and gook (his food).

  • DICTIONARY LANGUAGE MEANING MEANING OR SOURCE OR DIALECT `beautiful' `country' Chen Cantonese mei gwok Nelson Japanese bi koku Tan Taiwanese bi kok Stimson Middle mj<###> ku<###>k Chinese Stimson Old Mandarin m<###> kuiiq Stimson Modern m<###> (mei) kue (gwo) (Chen) Chinese [mei] [kuo] Cragg Korean my guk Nguyen & Vietnamese quoc Durand

  • I have no Korean or Vietnamese dictionaries, but it seems clear to me that the guk of the Korean Myguk (Cragg) and the Vietnamese quoc are all derived from an earlier form of Chinese.


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