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What is the difference between 생선 and 물고기 ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
What is the difference between 생선 and 물고기 ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
Encountered 물고기 in an item in TOPIK, while 생선 is very common I guess.
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물고기(fish) is native Korean, 생선(edible fish) is sino-Korean (borrowed Chinese)

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