Korean

Korean - Basic Vocabulary

This is a collection of basic vocabulary for the Korean language, including around 200 words.

1. Numbers

Learn to count and express quantities with basic numerals, cardinal and ordinal numbers, and numerical expressions

0

์˜

yeong

zero

1

ํ•˜๋‚˜

hana

one

2

๋‘˜

dul

two

3

์…‹

set

three

4

๋„ท

net

four

5

๋‹ค์„ฏ

daseot

five

6

์—ฌ์„ฏ

yeoseot

six

7

์ผ๊ณฑ

ilgop

seven

8

์—ฌ๋Ÿ

yeodeol

eight

9

์•„ํ™‰

ahop

nine

10

์—ด

yeol

ten

11

์—ดํ•˜๋‚˜

yeolhana

eleven

12

์—ด๋‘

yeoldu

twelve

13

์—ด์…‹

yeolset

thirteen

14

์—ด๋„ท

yeolnet

fourteen

15

์—ด๋‹ค์„ฏ

yeoldaseot

fifteen

16

์—ด์—ฌ์„ฏ

yeolyeoseot

sixteen

17

์—ด์ผ๊ณฑ

yeol-ilgop

seventeen

18

์—ด์—ฌ๋Ÿ

yeolyeodeol

eighteen

19

์—ด์•„ํ™‰

yeorahop

nineteen

20

์Šค๋ฌผ

seumul

twenty

30

์„œ๋ฅธ

seoreun

thirty

40

๋งˆํ”

maheun

forty

50

์‰ฐ

swin

fifty

60

์˜ˆ์ˆœ

yesun

sixty

70

์ผํ”

ilheun

seventy

80

์—ฌ๋“ 

yeodeun

eighty

90

์•„ํ”

aheun

ninety

100

๋ฐฑ

baek

hundred

1K

์ฒœ

cheon

thousand

1M

๋ฐฑ๋งŒ

baengman

million

2. Colors

Explore basic and advanced colors, shades, and descriptive terms for talking about the visual world around you

โšช

ํ•˜์–€

hayan

white

โšซ

๊ฒ€์€์ƒ‰

geomeunsaek

black

๐Ÿ”ด

๋นจ๊ฐ„

ppalgan

red

๐Ÿ”ต

ํŒŒ๋ž€์ƒ‰

paransaek

blue

๐ŸŸก

๋…ธ๋ž€์ƒ‰

noransaek

yellow

๐ŸŸข

์ดˆ๋ก์ƒ‰

choroksaek

green

๐ŸŸฃ

๋ณด๋ผ์ƒ‰

borasaek

purple

๐ŸŸค

๊ฐˆ์ƒ‰

galsaek

brown

๐ŸŸ 

์ฃผํ™ฉ์ƒ‰

juhwangsaek

orange

๐ŸŒธ

๋ถ„ํ™์ƒ‰

bunhongsaek

pink

โญ

๊ธˆ์ƒ‰

geumsaek

gold

๐ŸŒ‘

์€์ƒ‰

eunsaek

silver

โ˜๏ธ

ํšŒ์ƒ‰

hoesaek

grey

3. Animals

Discover vocabulary for domestic pets, farm animals, wild creatures, and exotic species from around the world

๐Ÿถ

๊ฐœ

gae

dog

๐Ÿฑ

๊ณ ์–‘์ด

goyang-i

cat

๐Ÿด

๋ง

mal

horse

๐Ÿฎ

์†Œ

so

cow

๐Ÿท

๋ผ์ง€

dwaeji

pig

๐Ÿฆ

์ƒˆ

sae

bird

๐ŸŸ

๋ฌผ๊ณ ๊ธฐ

mulgogi

fish

๐Ÿญ

์ฅ

jwi

mouse

๐ŸฆŠ

์—ฌ์šฐ

yeou

fox

๐Ÿ‡

ํ† ๋ผ

tokki

rabbit

๐Ÿป

๊ณฐ

gom

bear

๐Ÿผ

ํŒ๋‹ค

panda

panda

๐Ÿจ

์ฝ”์•Œ๋ผ

koalla

koala

๐Ÿ˜

์ฝ”๋ผ๋ฆฌ

kokkiri

elephant

๐Ÿข

๊ฑฐ๋ถ์ด

geobugi

turtle

๐Ÿฆ’

๊ธฐ๋ฆฐ

girin

giraffe

๐Ÿฆ†

์˜ค๋ฆฌ

ori

duck

๐Ÿ•ท๏ธ

๊ฑฐ๋ฏธ

geomi

spider

4. People

Learn words for immediate and extended family members, relationships, and terms for describing different types of people

๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€๐Ÿ‘งโ€๐Ÿ‘ฆ

๊ฐ€์กฑ

gajok

family

๐Ÿง”

๋‚จ์ž

namja

man

๐Ÿ‘ฉ

์—ฌ์ž

yeoja

woman

๐Ÿ‘ฆ

์†Œ๋…„

sonyeon

boy

๐Ÿ‘ง

์—ฌ์ž์•„์ด

yeoja-ai

girl

๐Ÿ‘ถ

์•„์ด

ai

child

๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿฆณ

์•„๋ฒ„์ง€

abeoji

father

๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€๐Ÿฆณ

์–ด๋จธ๋‹ˆ

eomeoni

mother

๐Ÿ‘ด

ํ• ์•„๋ฒ„์ง€

harabeoji

grandfather

๐Ÿ‘ต

ํ• ๋จธ๋‹ˆ

halmeoni

grandmother

๐Ÿง‘โ€๐Ÿฆฐ

ํ˜•์ œ

hyeongje

brother

๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€๐Ÿฆฑ

์ž๋งค

jamae

sister

๐Ÿง‘

์นœ๊ตฌ

chingu

friend

๐Ÿ‘ฅ

์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค

saramdeul

people

๐Ÿ™‹

์‚ฌ๋žŒ

saram

person

5. Objects

Build vocabulary for everyday items, household objects, tools, and common things you encounter in daily life

๐Ÿ 

์ง‘

jip

house

๐Ÿข

๊ฑด๋ฌผ

geonmul

building

๐Ÿซ

ํ•™๊ต

hakgyo

school

๐Ÿช

๊ฐ€๊ฒŒ

gage

store

๐Ÿ›ฃ๏ธ

๊ธธ

gil

road

๐ŸŒ†

๋„์‹œ

dosi

city

๐ŸŒณ

๋‚˜๋ฌด

namu

tree

๐Ÿ’ง

๋ฌผ

mul

water

โ˜€๏ธ

ํƒœ์–‘

taeyang

sun

โ˜๏ธ

๊ตฌ๋ฆ„

gureum

cloud

๐Ÿ“š

์ฑ…

chaek

book

๐Ÿ–Š๏ธ

ํŽœ

pen

pen

๐Ÿ“ฑ

์ „ํ™”

jeonhwa

phone

๐Ÿ”‘

์—ด์‡ 

yeolsoe

key

๐Ÿš—

์ž๋™์ฐจ

jadongcha

car

6. Food

Master vocabulary for meals, snacks, beverages, cooking ingredients, and different types of cuisine from various cultures

๐ŸŽ

์‚ฌ๊ณผ

sagwa

apple

๐ŸŒ

๋ฐ”๋‚˜๋‚˜

banana

banana

๐Ÿž

๋นต

ppang

bread

๐Ÿง€

์น˜์ฆˆ

chijeu

cheese

๐Ÿฅฉ

๊ณ ๊ธฐ

gogi

meat

๐Ÿฅ›

์šฐ์œ 

uyu

milk

โ˜•

์ปคํ”ผ

keopi

coffee

๐Ÿต

์ฐจ

cha

tea

๐Ÿ’ง

๋ฌผ

mul

water

๐Ÿบ

๋งฅ์ฃผ

maekju

beer

๐Ÿท

์™€์ธ

wain

wine

๐Ÿฝ๏ธ

์Œ์‹

eumล›ik

food

๐Ÿณ

๊ณ„๋ž€

gyeran

egg

๐Ÿš

์Œ€

ssal

rice

๐Ÿฅ•

์ฑ„์†Œ

chaeso

vegetables

7. Time

Learn to express time concepts including days of the week, months, seasons, clock times, and temporal expressions

โ˜€๏ธ

์ผ

il

day

๐ŸŒ™

๋ฐค

bam

night

โฐ

์‹œ๊ฐ„

sigan

hour

๐Ÿ—“๏ธ

์ฃผ

ju

week

๐Ÿ“…

์›”

wol

month

๐Ÿ—“๏ธ

๋…„

nyeon

year

๐Ÿ—“๏ธ

์›”์š”์ผ

woryoil

Monday

๐Ÿ—“๏ธ

ํ™”์š”์ผ

hwayoil

Tuesday

๐Ÿ—“๏ธ

์ˆ˜์š”์ผ

suyoil

Wednesday

๐Ÿ—“๏ธ

๋ชฉ์š”์ผ

mogyoil

Thursday

๐Ÿ—“๏ธ

๊ธˆ์š”์ผ

geumyoil

Friday

๐Ÿ—“๏ธ

ํ† ์š”์ผ

toyoil

Saturday

๐Ÿ—“๏ธ

์ผ์š”์ผ

iryoil

Sunday

๐ŸŒ…

์•„์นจ

achim

morning

๐ŸŒ†

์ €๋…

jeonyeok

evening

๐Ÿ•›

์ง€๊ธˆ

jigeum

now

๐Ÿ”œ

๊ณง

got

soon

๐Ÿ•’

์‹œ๊ฐ„

sigan

time

8. Verbs

Essential action words and verbs for describing activities, states of being, and both physical and mental actions

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ

๋งํ•˜๋‹ค

malhada

to speak

๐Ÿšถ

๊ฑท๋‹ค

geotda

to walk

๐Ÿƒ

๋‹ฌ๋ฆฌ๋‹ค

dallida

to run

๐Ÿฝ๏ธ

๋จน๋‹ค

meokda

to eat

๐Ÿท

๋งˆ์‹œ๋‹ค

masida

to drink

๐Ÿ˜ด

์ž๋‹ค

jada

to sleep

๐Ÿ“–

์ฝ๋‹ค

ikda

to read

โœ๏ธ

์“ฐ๋‹ค

sseuda

to write

๐Ÿ‘€

๋ณด๋‹ค

boda

to see

๐Ÿ‘‚

๋“ฃ๋‹ค

deutda

to hear

๐Ÿ’ญ

์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๋‹ค

saenggakada

to think

๐Ÿค”

์•Œ๋‹ค

alda

to know

โค๏ธ

์‚ฌ๋ž‘ํ•˜๋‹ค

saranghada

to love

๐Ÿ‘

์ข‹์•„ํ•˜๋‹ค

joh-ahada

to like

๐Ÿ‘‹

์˜ค๋‹ค

oda

to come

๐Ÿšช

์—ด๋‹ค

yeolda

to open

๐Ÿ”’

๋‹ซ๋‹ค

datda

to close

๐Ÿ’ก

๋ฐฐ์šฐ๋‹ค

baeuda

to learn

โž•

์ฃผ๋‹ค

juda

to give

๐Ÿ’ธ

์‚ฌ๋‹ค

sada

to buy

9. Adjectives

Expand your descriptive vocabulary with words for qualities, characteristics, emotions, and properties of things

๐Ÿ˜Š

ํ–‰๋ณตํ•œ

haengbokhan

happy

๐Ÿ˜ข

์Šฌํ”ˆ

seulpeun

sad

๐Ÿ˜ 

ํ™”๋‚œ

hwanan

angry

๐Ÿ‘

์ข‹์€

joeun

good

๐Ÿ‘Ž

๋‚˜์œ

nappeun

bad

โฌ†๏ธ

ํฐ

keun

big

โฌ‡๏ธ

์ž‘์€

jageun

small

๐Ÿ†•

์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด

saeroun

new

๐Ÿ•ฐ๏ธ

์˜ค๋ž˜๋œ

oraedoen

old

๐Ÿ’ฏ

๋งŽ์€

manheun

many

๐Ÿค

๋ช‡๋ช‡

myeochmyeoch

few

๐Ÿฅต

๋œจ๊ฑฐ์šด

tteugeoun

hot

๐Ÿฅถ

์ถ”์šด

chuun

cold

๐Ÿ’ช

๊ฐ•ํ•œ

ganghan

strong

๐Ÿ‘ถ

์•ฝํ•œ

yakhan

weak

โœจ

์•„๋ฆ„๋‹ค์šด

areumdaun

beautiful

๐Ÿ‘น

๋ชป์ƒ๊ธด

motsaenggin

ugly

โœ…

์ •ํ™•ํ•œ

jeonghwakhan

correct

โŒ

ํ‹€๋ฆฐ

teullin

wrong

โšก

๋น ๋ฅธ

ppareun

fast

10. Connectors

Master conjunctions, transitions, and linking expressions to connect ideas and create more complex, flowing sentences

โž•

๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ 

geurigo

and

โžก๏ธ

ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ

hajiman

but

๐Ÿ‘‰

๋˜๋Š”

tto-neun

or

๐Ÿค”

๋•Œ๋ฌธ์—

ttaemune

because

๐Ÿ‘‰

๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ

geuraeseo

so

๐Ÿคจ

๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜

geureona

however

๐Ÿค”

๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋ฏ€๋กœ

geureomuro

therefore

โž•

๋˜ํ•œ

ttohan

also

๐Ÿ•’

์–ธ์ œ

eonje

when

๐Ÿค”

๋งŒ์•ฝ

manyak

if

๐Ÿ•’

์ „์—

jeone

before

๐Ÿ•’

ํ›„

hu

after

๐Ÿ•’

์ดํ›„

ihu

since

๐Ÿ•’

๋™์•ˆ

dong-an

while

11. Professions

Learn vocabulary for various careers, occupations, and professional roles across different industries and sectors

๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿซ

์„ ์ƒ๋‹˜

seonsaengnim

teacher

๐Ÿง‘โ€โš•๏ธ

์˜์‚ฌ

uisa

doctor

๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€๐Ÿ’ป

์—”์ง€๋‹ˆ์–ด

enjinieo

engineer

๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿณ

์š”๋ฆฌ์‚ฌ

yorisa

chef

๐Ÿง‘โ€๐ŸŒพ

๋†๋ถ€

nongbu

farmer

๐Ÿ‘ฎ

๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ๊ด€

gyeongchalgwan

police officer

๐Ÿง‘โ€๐ŸŽจ

์˜ˆ์ˆ ๊ฐ€

yesulga

artist

๐Ÿง‘โ€๐Ÿ’ผ

์‚ฌ๋ฌด์ง์›

samujigwon

office worker

๐Ÿ”ฌ

๊ณผํ•™์ž

gwahakja

scientist

๐Ÿ›’

ํŒ๋งค์›

panmaewon

salesperson

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