A person or thing that one puts in another party's custody as a sign of one's intention to keep a promise.

(archaic) A prince or other influential figure forced to stay in another country as a gesture of his/her own country's intention to observe a treaty signed between the two countries.

(figurative) A person behind another person's strength to make his/her claim in a conflicting relationship.

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인질

recognition; awareness

be recognized; be perceived

mermaid

relationship; connection; reason

humaneness; humanity

human feelings; human nature; humanity; sympathy; kindness; tenderness; compassion; pity; recognition; acknowledgment

index finger; forefinger; human intelligence; human wisdom; recognition; cognition

recognize; perceive

hostage

Incheon

human body

Internet

influenza

sea of people; waves of people

work; labor; scheme; plot; project; matter; affair; act; business; engagement; circumstances; things; experience; case; Sunday; day; A bound noun that serves as a unit for counting the number of days or referring to a date; one; first

piece of work; job; materials

merely existing; being only

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A person whom one holds in order to make another party keep a promise.

(archaic) A prince or any other important person whom one country puts compulsorily in another country's custody as a sign of its intention to keep to an agreement between them.

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