ㄴㄴ

See also: ㅥ

Korean

Etymology

Initialism of English no repeated twice.

Pronunciation

(SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [no̞no̞]
Phonetic hangul: [노노]

Romanizations
Revised Romanization^?	nono
Revised Romanization (translit.)^?	nono
McCune–Reischauer^?	nono
Yale Romanization^?	nono

Interjection

ㄴㄴ • (nono)

(Internet slang, text messaging) no
Antonym: ㅇㅇ (eung)

Usage notes

The English word no is not used in spoken or written Korean but is very common in text messaging, perhaps because the initialism ㅇㄴ for 아니 (ani, “no”) can be easily mistyped as ㅇㅇ for 응 (eung, “yes”).

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