There are many unique nouns in Korean women's groups. What do Maknae and Shouren mean respectively?

Maknae, which means Lao Yao in Chinese, is the youngest member of the Korean group. Usually for the loveliness of the group. For example, Shen Changmin, Cho Kyu Hyun, Wolf, Jeon Jung Kook, Yu-Gyeom Kim, etc. It is a literal translation of the pronunciation of the word "Lao Yao" in Korean. When you introduce yourself at an activity, you will call yourself Maknae.

The basic meaning of taking responsibility refers to taking responsibility for tasks. South Korea has Chinese as its role, that is, Chinese is better, and there is also a facade role (image role), that is, the members with the best combination and the best appearance of idol groups are selected as image roles. Commonly seen in Japanese and Korean groups, that is, the image representative of the group, it is most often called "facade".

Extended data Maknae, also known as:

Note: The symbol above K here is called silent stop symbol, which means that there is no stop stage, only the stage of producing and maintaining resistance, that is, only the mouth and tongue position at the beginning of K sound are produced, and vowels become shorter and cannot be extended indefinitely, so there is a feeling of being stopped, so it is also called radio station in Korean. Chinese brings sounds (Wu dialect, Cantonese, Jin dialect, etc. ) there are similar sounds, in which the consonants are not all the same.

And /mak? / /n？ /is the phonetic symbol when these two Korean characters are pronounced separately. In words and sentences, Korean pronunciation will change. Here, /k? /become/? /It's called assimilation, that is, radio reception? (? ,? ,? ,? ),? (? , ? , ? , ? , ? ),? (? , ? ,? ,? ) in consonants? ,? When it appeared before, it was sent separately? ,? ,? . That is, the nasal sound from the silent stop to the corresponding pronunciation position.

/k/(？ ) and/? /(? ) is the root of the tongue, so this transformation has taken place, which leads to "(/Ma? nei/)”.

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