Basic Korean Dictionary: advanced words

Goguryeo (an ancient kingdom in modern Korea, one of the Three Kingdoms, existing from 37 BCE to 668 CE; at its maximum covering all of North Korea, the northern part of South Korea, parts of Manchuria in northeast China, and parts of Primorsky Krai in Russia)

Name

고립하다

to isolate

Verb

과하다

to levy (a fine or tax); to lay, to impose (a restriction, an obligation, etc.); to set, to assign (a task, etc.); to impose (a sentence, penalty, or punishment)

Verb

관형사

determiner; attributive

Noun

군밤

roasted chestnuts

Noun

금기하다

to view as taboo

Verb

급여하다

to allow; to grant; to pay

Verb

기만되다

to be deceived

Verb

기미

The fifty-sixth term of the Chinese sexagenary cycle, sometimes glossed as "Earth Goat" from its associated terms in the Chinese elements and zodiac.

Name

기어

marlin

Noun

기와집

tile-roofed house

Noun

꾹

tightly, firmly

Adverb

남한

synonym of 한국 (Han'guk): South Korea (a country in East Asia, comprising the southern part of the Korean Peninsula)

Name

내지

inland area; mainland; Japan (during the Japanese rule of Korea)

Noun

냉전

Cold War

Name

노화하다

to age

Verb

논술

discourse; statement; enunciation

Noun

농악

nong-ak

Noun

다방면적

many-sided; multi-pronged; versatile; comprehensive; omnifarious

Determiner

단

sheaf; row or column of text; rating; ranking; steps; stairs; a unit of area, equivalent to 991.74 m²; A three of a kind of hwatu playing cards of the same type of 띠 (tti, “tanzaku card”).

Noun

단결

unity

Noun

단군

Dangun, legendary founder of Korea

Name

단일하다

to be single; to be in unity

Adjective

대대손손

generation after generation; posterity

Noun

대두하다

to emerge

Verb

대북

Taipei (the capital city of Taiwan)

Name

대성통곡

wailing loudly

Noun

대체

main principle; outline; substitute; replacement

Noun

데모하다

to demonstrate (to show how to use something); to demonstrate (to participate in a demonstration (a public display of protest, etc.))

Verb

도시화

urbanization

Noun

동남아

Southeast Asia

Name

동문서답

an irrelevant answer

Noun

동상이몽

not getting along; being in discord; having different opinions and plans

Noun

된소리

a fortis; any of the doubled jamo (ㄲ (kk), ㄸ (tt), ㅃ (pp), ㅆ (ss), or ㅉ (jj))

Noun

뚝뚝

describes dripping liquids or snapping sounds/actions

Adverb

막

tent, hut, shack, shelter; curtain; act (of dramas)

Noun

맏형

the eldest brother

Noun

매매

buying and selling

Noun

매사

everything

Noun

면세점

duty-free store

Noun

모금

fundraising; collecting money

Noun

목적어

object (of a verb)

Noun

무인

uninhabited, unmanned; soldier; warrior; The fifteenth term of the Chinese sexagenary cycle, sometimes glossed as "Earth Tiger" from its associated terms in the Chinese elements and zodiac.

Name

물끄러미

while staring, while sitting or standing still, as if lost in thought

Adverb

민주화하다

to democratize

Verb

발상하다

to conjure up an idea; to conceive an idea

Verb

백제

Baekje (an ancient kingdom in modern Korea, one of the Three Kingdoms, existing from 18 BCE to 660 CE; at its maximum covering most of modern western South Korea)

Name

백지

white paper, paper of white color; blank sheet of paper; square one; blank slate, tabula rasa; uncultivated land; unevidenced state; only used in 백지(白地)로 (baekjiro, “(dialectal) in vain, to no avail, pointlessly”).; Angelica dahurica (a herb used in medicine), or the root thereof

Noun

본격적

Something which is genuine, authentic.

Noun

본문

text, the body (of a book)

Noun

북한

North Korea (a country in East Asia, whose territory consists of the northern part of Korea; official name: 조선민주주의인민공화국(朝鮮民主主義人民共和國) (Joseon Minjujuui Inmin Gonghwaguk); capital: 평양(平壤) (Pyeong'yang))

Name

사극

period drama

Noun

사물놀이

samullori, a modern form of traditional pungmullori featuring four traditional instruments

Noun

사법적

judicial power, judicial authority

Noun

사상누각

sandcastle; house of cards

Noun

사업주

business owner

Noun

사자성어

chengyu; a set phrase from Classical Chinese that is four characters long

Noun

삼림욕

forest therapy (lit. forest bathing)

Noun

서구

Western Europe (a sociopolitical region in the west of Europe); the West

Name

성경

Bible (Christian holy book)

Name

소실하다

to vanish, to disappear

Verb

수산업

marine products industry; fisheries

Noun

수수하다

to receive; to accept

Verb

숭늉

sungnyung, scorched rice tea

Noun

신라

Silla (an ancient kingdom in modern Korea, one of the Three Kingdoms, existing from 57 BCE to 935 CE; at its maximum covering all of modern South Korea and most of modern North Korea)

Name

신약

New Testament

Name

심의하다

to deliberate; to review

Verb

쏘아보다

to glare at; to shoot daggers at

Verb

아흐레

nine days; the ninth day of the month