‹ Korean decksBasic Korean Dictionary: advanced words
3238 words, in teaching order
풋풋하다to be young and fresh
Adjective
직사각형rectangle; oblong
Noun
쇠퇴하다to decline, to decay
Verb
활자movable type; printed text
Noun
천부innateness, a natural gift, native ability, endowment
Noun
고온high temperature, high heat
Noun
팔방미인perfection; a person seeming like a beauty or role model; jack of all trades, all-rounder (a versatile person able to do many things well); someone with no scruples
Noun
학식learning; erudition
Noun
냉기tree; wood; cold air; chilly air
Noun
시름sorrow; grief; anxiety; a persistent melancholic feeling
Noun
나부끼다to flutter in the wind
Verb
가누다to steady or control the body or a body part; to steady or control one's breath, an emotion, an attitude, household affairs, etc.
Verb
보건소health (care) center
Noun
권태fatigue; languor; ennui
Noun
낭송하다to recite (a poem or passage)
Verb
상여hearse, catafalque; bonus
Noun
찌뿌둥하다to be murky; to feel about to rain; to be dark, to be discontent; to ache, to hurt
Adjective
인건비labour cost, personnel expenditure
Noun
은은하다to be faint, to be indistinct (typically in a beautiful way); to be loud, to be roaring
Adjective
보자기bojagi (traditional Korean wrapping cloth)
Noun
즐비하다to stand closely side by side; to pack, to teem; to be numerous
Adjective
생산자producer, manufacturer, maker
Noun
사상가thinker, man of thought, intellectual
Noun
논증proof; demonstration
Noun
성묘one's ancestral tomb; the act of visiting and paying respects to one's ancestral tomb, attending to it, etc.
Noun
무심heedlessness, indifference, detachedness, thoughtlessness
Noun
원산지provenance; original place of production
Noun
기성established, pre-existing
Noun
가로수roadside tree; street tree
Noun
저해prevention, hampering, hindrance; kimchi and salted foods as a whole; practice of soaking salted seafood with the corpse of a criminal for public display; seeking an opportunity to harm someone
Noun
여류female (before a profession)
Noun
경험담story of one's (personal) experiences
Noun
실무practical affairs, business practices
Noun
옷자락bottom edge of a piece of garment; hem
Noun
미술가artist (especially painter)
Noun
외양appearance, look; barn, stall, cowshed
Noun
사공boatman, oarsman, rower
Noun
넓적하다to be wide and flat
Adjective
단란하다to be harmonious; to be amicable
Adjective
온돌ondol, hypocaust (a Korean form of underfloor heating that uses direct heat transfer from wood smoke to the underside of a thick masonry floor)
Noun
유해하다to be harmful, noxious, injurious
Adjective
정겹다to be friendly and warm
Adjective
객지foreign land, place far from home
Noun
일련a chain, a series (of)
Noun
졸리다to be sleepy/drowsy
Adjective
떫다to be astringent, to be caustic
Adjective
정월the first month of the traditional Korean calendar, analogous to January on the Gregorian calendar
Noun
의성어onomatopoeia (word that sounds like what it represents)
Noun
찹쌀glutinous rice (a particular type of sticky rice used to make rice cakes)
Noun
제조업manufacturing industry
Noun
농경agriculture, farming
Noun
실정the true state of affairs; the actual situation; the truth
Noun
외화foreign currency; foreign goods
Noun
트림하다to burp; to belch
Verb
민족주의nationalism; racial nationalism; ethnic nationalism
Noun
바자회synonym of 바자 (baja, “bazaar”)
Noun
트로트trot, a 20th century genre of Korean pop music
Noun
판소리pansori (a Korean genre of musical storytelling performed by a singer and a drummer)
Noun
상견례meeting between the families of the bride and groom
Noun
야당the opposition party
Noun
오누이brother and sister; siblings (one male and one female)
Noun
튼튼히strongly; firmly
Adverb
상이하다to be different from each other
Adjective
느닷없다to be sudden, to be unforeseen
Adjective
화사하다to be splendid
Adjective
군데군데several places, here and there
Adverb
충실faithfulness; loyalty; devotedness; substantiality; fullness
Noun
구독하다to subscribe (to a publication)
Verb