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What Does '읽씹' Mean?

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읽고 씹기 (읽씹), meaning to read a message but deliberately not reply — the recipient can see you opened it (via the read receipt) but chose to ignore it, a passive-aggressive non-response distinct from the more extreme 안읽씹 (leaving a message unread and unanswered), which already exists as its own established term.

REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE

"She hit me with a 읽씹 (read and ignored) right after I confessed."

LORE & ORIGIN

A well-established, widely documented term in Korean messaging culture (see namu.wiki), built from "씹다" (slang for "ignore/blow off") combined with "읽다" (read); in wide use for years as smartphone messaging and read-receipts became ubiquitous.

FIRST SEEN
2010s
PEAK POPULARITY
2010s-2026 (ongoing, KakaoTalk/messaging era)
CURRENT STATUS
Mainstream Slang
Related To:Anilkssip

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