As a cultural act, 送 often carries connotations of farewell, ritual parting, and gift-giving.

A compound ideograph:
辵 (“to walk, to move, to go”) — indicates movement or travel.
灷 (“firebrand, torch”) — pictograph of two hands holding fire, symbolizing something carried.
Together: “to walk carrying a flame/torch,” → “to send forth, to dispatch.”
Stabilized into the modern form with the general sense of sending, delivering, or accompanying.

發送 (발송) — to dispatch, to send out
送別 (송별) — farewell, to see off
送禮 (송례) — to give a gift
送達 (송달) — delivery, transmission
護送 (호송) — to escort, to convoy
送行 (송행) — to send off on a journey

Characters

Words

Vocabulary

to go around, to detour, distant, indirect, circuitous

to meet, to welcome, to receive (a person, guest, etc.)

to be near, close, nearby

to return, to give back, to come back

to state, to narrate, to describe, to follow, to pursue, to extend, to carry out

to be lost, to go astray, to be confused

trace, mark, footprint, vestige, remains

to pursue, to chase, to seek

to send, to deliver, to dispatch

to penetrate, to pierce, to pass through

road, path, way

to pass through, to communicate, to be well connected, to match in mind or intention

fast, quick, rapid, to hasten, to speed up

to create, to make

to connect, to link together, to be adjacent, to be in succession

to go around, to turn, week

to advance, to go forward

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Chinese character

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Chinese characters (Hanja)

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送

Etymology

Usage in Korean

Words that derived from 送

Additional notes

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