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Experience; the knowledge or skill acquired through doing, seeing, or feeling things.
나는 다양한 경험을 통해 성장했다.
I grew through various experiences.
이 경험은 나에게 큰 교훈을 주었다.
This experience taught me a great lesson.
Often used to refer to personal or professional experiences that shape one's knowledge or skills.
'경험' is often used in both formal and informal contexts. For example, '나는 이 일을 통해 많은 경험을 얻었다' (I gained a lot of experience from this job).
In formal contexts, '경험' is often used to describe professional or educational experiences, while in informal contexts, it can refer to personal or everyday experiences.
Derived from the Sino-Korean word '경험' (經驗), meaning 'experience' or 'experiment'. The first character '경' (經) means 'to go through' or 'to experience', and the second character '험' (驗) means 'to test' or 'to verify'.
While '경험' generally refers to personal or professional experiences, it can also be used in a more formal or technical sense, such as in scientific experiments or legal proceedings.