Etymology

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Today it means: A Korean soup consisting of a young chicken filled with rice, garlic and jujube and spiced with ginseng. Full definition →

Korean 삼계탕(蔘鷄湯)
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  1. Korean · borrowed from삼계탕(蔘鷄湯)
  2. English todaysamgyetang

Borrowed from Korean 삼계탕(蔘鷄湯) (samgyetang), Sino-Korean word literally meaning “chicken soup with ginseng”.

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