# Intermediate Korean Words **가꾸다**: To make something better. **가난**: One's state of having insufficient money or this state itself. **가능**: The state of being able to do or be something. **가능성**: The ability that can be developed in the future. **가득하다**: An emotion or thought being strong. **가득히**: With a strong emotion or thought. **가라앉다**: For a voice, facial expression, etc., to sink. **가렵다**: Feeling like to scratch one's skin. **가로**: A horizontal direction or the width from left to right. **가로**: Lengthwise. **가로등**: A lamp set up on a street to light up the dark. **가로막다**: To obstruct someone's view. **가루**: A very small grain of something hard, as a result of grinding or pounding it. **가르다**: To move quickly as if cutting through. **가리다**: To take care of one's matters on one's own. **가리다**: To block or hide something so as to prevent it from being visible or connected to something else. **가만**: With calm and care. **가만있다**: An expression used when one cannot think of or recall something offhand. **가만히**: Quietly so that others will not notice. **가뭄**: A weather condition with no rain for a long time. **가사**: Words written to music. **가스**: Gas that occurs as food digests in the stomach. **가스레인지**: An appliance used to heat up and cook food with gas as fuel. **가습기**: A device making water vapor to adjust room humidity. **가입**: The act of joining a group or signing up for goods and services. **가입자**: A person who joins a group or organization, or who signs a contract to use a product or service. **가장**: A person who represents and takes charge of the family, usually the eldest male of the family. **가전제품**: Electronic appliances used in the house. **가정**: A community consisting of family members or the house they live in. **가정**: The act of making a temporary assumption to prove a logic in logistics or mathematics, or the assumption. **가정주부**: A married woman who manages a household. **가져다주다**: To cause to lead to a certain state or consequence. **가죽**: The product made by processing the skin peeled from an animal's body. **가지**: Something deriving from a certain thing that is the basis. **가짜**: Something which is made to look real, but is not real. **가치**: Meaning or importance. **가치관**: One's attitude or judgment criteria towards the value of a person or something. **가톨릭**: Catholicism or a believer of Catholicism. **각**: Each and every one of multiple things or people. **각국**: Each of different countries. **각오**: Mental readiness for the difficulties that lie ahead. **각자**: Each person or an individual's own self. **각자**: Individually and separately. **각종**: Many different kinds of something. **간**: The degree of how salty the food is. **간**: An organ in a human or animal's body, that detoxifies ingested substance. **간**: A bound noun used to indicate that one does not care either way. **간격**: The degree of how far apart two people or objects are. **간섭**: An act of interfering in others' matter, which has nothing to do with oneself. **간신히**: With much effort. **간절하다**: Wishing for something very strongly. **간접적**: The state of something being indirectly affected, not at the center of an event or situation. **간접적**: Being indirectly affected, not at the center of an event or situation. **간지럽다**: Feeling ashamed or uncomfortable at the thought that someone is talking about or looking at him/her. **간판**: (slang) One's appearance, education, career, qualification, etc., that represents oneself. **간편하다**: Simple, easy, handy, and comfortable. **간호**: An act of taking care of someone who is sick. **간혹**: A rare occasion or event. **간혹**: Rare and at random intervals. **갇히다**: To become stuck in a certain place or situation without an exit. **갈다**: To take the place of someone. **갈등**: One's agony and inner struggle over what to decide. **갈라지다**: For a close relationship to be broken. **갈수록**: More and more in degree over time **갈증**: The state of someone desperately wishing for something not achieved or obtained. **감각**: One's ability to judge or express something based on what is felt and understood. **감다**: For a snake, etc., to coil or entwine itself around other objects. **감독**: A person who is responsible for and directs the entire process at a concert, in making a movie, preparing for and playing a sport, etc. **감동**: The state of feeling of being touched by something very deeply, or such an emotional state. **감동적**: A moving of the heart or spirit due to strong feelings. **감동적**: Felt strongly enough to cause one to take action. **감상**: The act of enjoying, understanding, and assessing a piece of art or scenery. **감상문**: A piece of writing about one's feelings from seeing or hearing an object or phenomenon. **감소**: Quantity or a number reduction. **감시**: An act of monitoring closely to control a person or situation. **감싸다**: To side with someone. **감옥**: A place to detain a person who broke the law. **감정**: A feeling or mood one has toward a certain incident or person. **감추다**: To keep a certain fact or emotion secret from someone. **감히**: Presumptiously in speaking or behaving. **갑작스럽다**: Something happening abruptly and unexpectedly. **값싸다**: One's behavior being reckless and light. **강도**: The act of robbing other people of their goods by using coercive measures such as violence or threats. **강물**: Water running in a river. **강사**: A person teaching students at schools or institutes of learning. **강수량**: The quantity of water that comes from rain or snow that fall on a particular location during a particular period of time. **강요**: An act of demanding something forcefully. **강의**: An act of teaching knowledge or technology systematically at a university, cram school, or an institute. **강의실**: A classroom used for lectures. **강제**: The act of forcing someone to do something against their will through physical force or power. **강조**: The act of making something stand out or insisting on something strongly. **갖가지**: Many different kinds. **갖추다**: To follow or comply with required procedures or formalities. **개구리**: An animal with four webbed feet and long hind legs, good for swimming and leaping, respectively, which lives in rice paddies or streams, and makes a sound by inflating its vocal sac. **개나리**: A tree with yellow flowers that bloom on long, trailing branches in early spring, or its flower. **개념**: General knowledge or thoughts about a certain fact, idea, or object, which are obtained through many specific examples or characteristics. **개다**: For snow, rain, fog, etc., to let up or disappear, leading to a clear weather. **개다**: To fold up clothes, blankets, etc., neatly. **개미**: A small, thin-waisted, crawling insect living underground in a group. **개발**: The act of creating a new product or idea. **개방**: The act of removing a ban on something and letting people or goods travel or interact freely. **개별**: A state in which something or someone exists as a distinct entity separate from others. **개선**: The act of reforming shortcomings, wrong or bad sides to character and making them better. **개성**: A unique feature that distinguishes one thing from other things. **개인**: Each person. **개인적**: Something owned by an individual, or related to an individual. **개인적**: Belonging to or related to a person. **개최**: Organized planning and holding of gatherings, events, sports meets, etc. **개혁**: Correcting irrational systems or institutions. **객관적**: Viewing or thinking a fact or thing as it is or as anyone would agree, without engaging personal views or emotions. **객관적**: Viewing or thinking about a fact or thing as it is or as anyone would agree, without engaging personal views or emotions. **거꾸로**: So that the order, direction, or position is reversed. **거대**: Something that is extremely large. **거두다**: To end or stop expressing one's thoughts or feelings. **거두다**: To receive and collect money or goods from many people. **거들다**: To cut in a conversation to side with someone or add a word. **거래**: The act of coming and going in order to maintain social relationships. **거래처**: The party to or from whom one sells or buys money or goods repeatedly. **거미**: A small insect that eats bugs it catches with its web, woven with thin sticky material it releases from its body. **거북이**: A short-necked, roundish flat animal that can retract its head and four feet into its shell. **거스름돈**: The remaining money given or received after a price is paid. **거지**: (insult) A person who is very filthy, ugly and useless; or a feeling that one has when he/she meets such a person. **거짓**: Something that is not true but made to look true. **거치다**: To be tested or inspected. **거칠다**: Physically hard to do. **거품**: Something looking great on the outside, while there is nothing inside. **걱정스럽다**: Fearful and anxious that something bad might happen. **건너**: A place across something; on the other side. **건널목**: A route across a river, road, stream, etc., where people cross routinely. **건네다**: To speak to another person. **건네주다**: To give something over to another person. **건드리다**: To try doing something. **건설**: Creating a country or an organization. **건전지**: A small object that generates electricity that is used in cameras, radios, and flashlights. **건조**: The act of drying up water or lowering humidity by drying something. **건지다**: To take back what one has lost or invested , or to obtain good things. **건축**: An act of designing and constructing houses, buildings, bridges, etc. **걷다**: To finish or stop what one is doing. **걷다**: To receive and collect money or goods from many people. **걸레**: A dirty and old thing. **걸치다**: To have a drink in a good mood. **검다**: Without hope; depressing. **검사**: A judiciary civil servant who investigates crimes and makes accusations or charges against criminals. **검색**: The act of finding necessary information in a book or browsing through the Internet. **검토**: Reviewing something in depth. **겁**: A state of mind when one is scared or anxious. **겁나다**: To feel afraid or scared of something. **겉모습**: The appearance showing on the outside. **겉옷**: Clothes worn over other clothes to keep one's body warm when it is cold outside. **게**: An animal, covered by a hard shell, which crawls sideways with its ten feet. **게다가**: In addition. **게시**: An act of putting up a notice or something for public viewing. **게시판**: In the Internet, a space where the Internet users can freely post and view opinions, news, etc. **겨우**: At a minimum. **겨울철**: The season of winter. **격려**: Cheering or buoying up someone to grant courage or motivation. **겪다**: To be acquainted with someone and spend some time with him/her. **견디다**: For an object to maintain its state or shape against heat, pressure, etc. **견학**: Learning by visiting the place related to a certain subject. **견해**: The opinion or thought one has about someone, something, or a phenomenon. **결국**: The stage where an incident or situation is completed. **결국**: When considering all circumstances. **결근**: Not going to work when one is supposed to. **결론**: A final judgment made regarding a certain issue. **결승**: The final game, match, round, etc., to decide the final winner at the end of a sports event. **결제**: Paying the price of a product or the money to be paid, and completing the transaction. **결코**: Never under any circumstances. **결합**: Two or more people or objects being connected into one. **결혼식장**: A venue equipped with facilities to hold a wedding. **겸손**: A mindset or attitude wherein the person respects others and acts humbly. **겹치다**: To put several objects or contents in the same place. **경계**: A point separating two different regions or objects **경고**: An act of cautioning someone in advance to be careful of or refrain from dangerous things, or such a caution. **경기**: Conditions related to economic areas such as booms and recessions in trade or transactions. **경기장**: A place with sports games facilities and audience seats. **경력**: One's history of academic, professional, and business experience. **경복궁**: The main palace of the Joseon Dynasty, located in Seoul; the first of its kind built during the Joseon era, it was the main palace of the Joseon Dynasty. **경비**: Money necessary for doing something. **경비실**: A place where a guard stays in during on-duty hours, keeping an eye on a building or area in order to prevent theft and other such crimes. **경영**: Management or operation of a company or business. **경우**: A condition or circumstance under which one is placed. **경쟁**: An act of vying with each other to win or lead in a field. **경쟁력**: The competitive power or competency. **경제**: The act of saving on money, effort, time, etc., to increase profits. **경제력**: The economic strength of an individual or country. **경제적**: Something that requires less money, effort, time, etc. **경제적**: Requiring less costs, effort, time, etc. **경찰관**: A government employee whose job it is to keep order in society and protect people and property from crimes. **경향**: An action, thought, or phenomenon that leans toward one direction. **곁**: A person nearby who takes care of someone or a person who can be relied on. **계곡**: The lower part in a mountain with a stream. **계기**: A cause or opportunity for something to happen or be decided. **계산기**: A machine used to calculate quickly and accurately. **계산대**: An area at a store or bank where people wait in line to settle accounts. **계약**: Agreeing on and specifying mutual obligations or accountabilities in a document, in a transaction where money is given or received. **계약금**: Money paid upon contract signing, as a sign of commitment. **계좌**: The record of each client's status of savings, loans, etc., kept by a financial institution. **계층**: A group within a society classified based on one's social position, job, economic status, etc. **고객**: A person who buys products or uses services. **고구마**: The root of a plant with a brown or red skin, with yellow insides which taste sweet and savory. **고국**: A term used when one stays abroad to indicate one's home country. **고궁**: A king's residence in ancient days. **고급**: One's position, class, status, etc., being high. **고급스럽다**: A product being of a high quality or belonging to the high class. **고대**: Ancient times. **고독**: A feeling of loneliness or solitude, feeling as if one were alone in the world. **고등**: A relatively high grade or level. **고등어**: A saltwater fish with much flesh, with a blue, wave-patterned back and white belly. **고래**: A huge, fish-like animal living in the sea. **고려**: An act of giving careful thought to multiple situations or conditions in doing something. **고마워하다**: To think about someone or something thankfully. **고무**: An elastic substance made by hardening the fluid from a rubber tree. **고백**: The act of telling one's innermost thoughts or secrets truthfully. **고생**: The state of one's going through sufferings or hardships, or such a life. **고소하다**: Feeling satisfaction to hear that a hated person has fallen into a bad situation. **고속**: Very high speed. **고요**: A state of being quiet, neither noisy nor chaotic. **고유**: A distinctive quality that an object or a group has inherently. **고장**: A region famous for something or for producing plenty of a certain produce, product, etc. **고전**: A book or work from the old times. **고정**: Being positioned or nailed to one spot and not moving. **고집**: An attitude of insisting on an idea or opinion. **고추**: (figurative) The sexual organ of a young boy. **고춧가루**: Spicy powder made by pounding dried red pepper. **고층**: A state in which a building consists of a great number of floors. **고통**: Physical or mental suffering or agony. **고통스럽다**: Feeling sick or troubled. **곡**: The unit for counting the number of songs or musical works. **곡식**: Food eaten as the main dish, such as rice, barley, wheat, corn, etc. **곤란**: A very difficult or embarrasing situation. **곧다**: Being honest and upright. **곧바로**: Near, not far away. **곧이어**: Right after. **곧잘**: Often. **곧장**: Right after. **골**: An act of scoring with a ball in games such as soccer, basketball, hockey, handball, etc.; or the ball scoring a goal. **골고루**: Everything without leaving anything out. **골다**: To breathe harshly and loudly when sleeping. **골목**: A long and narrow path between houses. **골목길**: A narrow pathway between houses. **골프**: A game played on a vast meadow with many holes, in which one hits a ball with a long stick and puts it into a hole. **곰**: (teasing) A person who acts slowly and foolishly. **곱다**: Behaving and acting nicely. **곱하다**: To multiply a number so that it becomes several times larger. **곳곳**: Many places, or here and there. **공**: A state of being void or null. **공간**: A specific spot for doing something. **공감**: The state of feeling the same way about another person's mind or thoughts, thinking that one is similar to him/her. **공개**: The act of opening a location so that people can freely enter and exit this location. **공격**: The act of playing actively to win in a sports match. **공공**: Relating to all the people of a society or country. **공공장소**: A place used by many people such as a library, park, post office, etc. **공과금**: Tax imposed on people by the government or public organizations, such as electricity bills, telephone charges, water rates, etc. **공급**: An act of providing things or money in response to demands or needs. **공기**: A mood or an ambient surrounding the place. **공기**: A unit to count the number of bowls of cooked rice. **공동**: People or groups of more than two doing something together, or being involved in something with equal rights. **공동체**: A group with the same ideology or goal. **공사**: The act of newly building or fixing a facility or building. **공손하다**: One's speech or behavior being courteous and humble. **공식**: In math and science, a state in which rules are indicated in words or symbols. **공업**: An industry that makes goods or materials by manufacturing raw material by hand or machine. **공연**: Performing music, dance or a play in front of many people. **공연장**: A place where performances take place, such as plays, music, dances, etc. **공적**: Related to the state or society. **공적**: Relating to a country or society. **공주**: A word of endearment used to refer to or address a girl. **공중전화**: A phone installed in a certain place or street in order for people to make calls by inserting coins or using a card. **공지**: An act of informing many people of certain information. **공통**: The state of being the same, or related among many. **공통점**: The quality shared by many. **공포**: The state of being scared and afraid. **공해**: Damage to people and the ecosystem due to the develpment of industry, transportation, etc. **과**: A unit categorized by contents in a textbook or other kinds of books. **과로**: The act of working to a degree of fatigue, or the fatigue caused by intense work. **과목**: Division of knowledge needed for teaching or learning according to categories. **과소비**: The act of spending or consuming more than one's income or planned expenditure. **과속**: The act of driving faster than the speed limit, or the driving speed. **과식**: The act of eating too much food. **과연**: Without question about expected results. **과외**: The act of giving or taking extracurricular lessons outside of school. **과장**: The act of excessively magnifying or embellishing something compared to what it actually is. **과장**: The head of a department in a company, government office, etc. **과정**: A process of an event or phenomenon, or something that happens in the process. **과제**: A duty assigned or a problem to be solved in a company or at school. **과학**: A discipline which tries to discover the truths or laws of nature or human society. **과학자**: A person who studies a field of science as a profession. **과학적**: The quality of conforming to scientific reason or a scientific system. **과학적**: Complying with the logic or the system of science. **관객**: A person who watches sports games, movies, plays, concerts, dance performances, etc. **관계없다**: Being okay; nothing problematic. **관계없이**: No matter. **관계있다**: Related to each other. **관계자**: A person who is particularly concerned with some matter, who has a relationship to some matter or issue. **관람**: The act of seeing performances, movies, sports games, or exhibits such as relics, paintings, sculptures, etc. **관람객**: A person who comes to see performances, movies, sports games, or exhibits such as relics, paintings, sculptures, etc. **관련**: People, objects, or phenomena, etc., of more than two, being related so as to influence each other, or the relationship. **관리**: The act of taking care of the body of a person, animal, plant, etc. **관심사**: Something that arouses or attracts interest. **관점**: A personal perspective or attitude towards an object or phenomenon. **관찰**: The act of watching an object or phenomenon carefully and in detail. **광경**: A scene or sight of some event or phenomenon happening. **괜히**: Without substance or particular reason. **괴로움**: A state or feeling of pain in one's body or mind. **괴로워하다**: To feel uncomfortable, painful, and thus be agonized physically or mentally. **괴롭다**: Feeling pain in one's body or mind. **괴롭히다**: To make someone feel uncomfortable, painful, or agonized physically or mentally. **굉장하다**: Being excellent and outstanding. **굉장히**: In a very outstanding manner. **교내**: The inside of the school. **교대**: A person who, in turn, assumes a certain task when such work is divided among various persons. **교류**: An electric current that changes its volume or direction at regular intervals. **교복**: Clothing specially chosen for students to wear at school. **교시**: A bound noun that serves as a unit for counting the number of classes at school. **교양**: Knowledge or a dignified manner gained from many fields, such as culture, etc., and forming a basis for social experience or learning. **교외**: A relaxing, quiet area around the city. **교육비**: Money being spent on education by the government according to the budget allotted for education. **교육자**: A person who works in education. **교장**: A representative position in elementary school, middle school, or high school, responsible for the education and administration at the school, or the person in such a position. **교재**: Textbooks or other materials necessary for teaching or learning. **교체**: The act of replacing a person, object, system, etc., in a certain role with another person, object, system, etc. **교통수단**: The means such as cars, trains, ships, airplanes, etc., used to carry passengers or cargo. **교통편**: The means of transit, such as cars, trains, ships, airplanes, etc., used when one moves from one place to another place. **교포**: A Korean living abroad. **교훈**: Teaching that helps or guides one's behavior. **구**: A word meaning 'an area designated according to a certain standard to meet administrative or legal needs.' **구경거리**: Something interesting to see. **구르다**: To lie and hang around in a certain place. **구매**: The act of buying a product. **구멍**: (figurative) A loophole or weak point. **구별**: The state of showing a distinction according to different qualities or types; the act of sorting out things according to their qualities or types. **구부리다**: To bend something to one side. **구분**: The act of categorizing a whole into several parts according to a standard. **구석**: A part of a mind or an object. **구성**: An act of combining various elements of a story to seek a unified plot in a literary or other work. **구세대**: The previous generation, or the generation of old people. **구속**: A court or judge's detaining a convicted person in a specific place. **구수하다**: Having a generous and warm heart. **구역**: One of many areas divided based on certain standards or characteristics. **구입**: The act of buying goods, etc. **구조**: Helping someone who has been in an accident or disaster get out of danger. **구조**: The part that serves as the frame of a building, etc. **구체적**: A state of being substantial and detailed. **구체적**: Practical and detailed. **구하다**: To find a number, quantity, or an answer to a question. **구하다**: To give things to help poor people. **국가**: An entity consisting of land and the people living there, resulting in a group ruled by sovereignty. **국경일**: A day legally designated as a holiday to commemorate a happy occasion of the nation. **국기**: The flag symbolizing a nation. **국내선**: Railways, airlines, communication services provided within a country only. **국립**: The state of being established and managed with the national budget for the pubic benefit. **국물**: (slang) A small profit or supplementary income earned for a certain service. **국민**: People that compose a country or a person with the nationality of a country. **국산**: The state of being produced by one's own nation, or the product. **국어**: An academic subject for the teaching of the Korean language and literature in a Korean school. **국외**: The area external to a nation's territory. **국제결혼**: The marriage between a man and a woman with different nationalities. **국제선**: All the routes used by transportation modes such as airlines and ships. **국제화**: The state of being related to or affecting many nations, or making this state. **국화**: An autumn flower that has white or yellow petals, a long stem, and a nice smell. **국회**: A meeting held by lawmakers at a parliamentary building **군**: A government office responsible for administrative affairs of a 'gun.' **군대**: An orderly group of soldiers who strictly abide by the rules. **군데**: A bound noun that serves as a unit for counting the number of places. **군사**: A state of being related to an army, war, etc. **굳다**: For money, rice, etc., to not be spent or eaten wastefully so as to remain in one's possession. **굳어지다**: For repeated occurrences, phenomena, words, behavior, etc., to become fixed. **굳이**: Insistently. **굴**: A hole where animals live. **굶다**: To skip a meal or meals. **굽**: The base of a plate or bowl. **굽히다**: To give up one's opinion, will, argument, etc., and follow another. **권력**: Social authority and power used to control others or make a person obey. **권리**: The just power or qualification, whose holder can do something oneself or ask for something from others. **권위**: Knowledge, skills or competence that deserves to be recognized by the society in a certain field. **권유**: The act of advising to do something. **권하다**: To say someone to eat food, smoke a cigarette, or use an object. **귀가**: Going or coming back home. **귀국**: The return of a person living in a foreign country to his/her own country. **귀신**: (figurative) A person who does nothing but one particular thing or stays stuck in one place **귀중하다**: Precious and important. **귀하**: (honorific) A title added after one's name when writing a letter or sending a package. **귀하**: (polite form) A pronoun used to indicate the listener. **귀하다**: Very scarce or difficult to obtain. **규모**: A plan or system for spending money. **규정**: The act of deciding content, principles, meanings clearly; or things that have been decided in such a manner. **규칙적**: Showing consistent patterns in something or a phenomenon. **규칙적**: Showing consistent patterns in something or a phenomenon. **균형**: A state of not tilting or leaning to one side. **그나마**: With disappointment over something when others are unsatisfactory or insufficient. **그네**: Play equipment in a playground whose two long dangling ropes hold a seat, on which a person swings back and forth. **그녀**: A pronoun used to indicate the previously-mentioned woman. **그늘**: The facial expression of someone who is worried or troubled. **그다지**: To that extent, or that much. **그대**: (affectionate) A pronoun used to indicate the other person in a written document. **그래프**: An illustration showing the change of quantity or number in lines, curves, dotted lines, bars, etc. **그램**: A bound noun that serves as a unit of weight measurement. **그러게**: An exclamation used to indicate that the speaker supports or agrees with the words of the other party. **그러다**: To say so. **그럭저럭**: While one has not been aware of it. **그런대로**: Acceptably although not satisfactorily. **그렇지**: An exclamation used when something that the speaker has forgotten, comes to his/her mind. **그룹**: A corporate body composed of many subsidiary corporations. **그리**: To that place or in that direction. **그리움**: A pitiable feeling that one misses someone very deeply. **그림자**: (figurative) Something following someone at any time and anywhere. **그림책**: A book that contains a collection of pictures. **그만큼**: Just so much or about that much. **그만큼**: To that extent, or that much. **그만하다**: To stop what one has been doing. **그야말로**: (emphasizing form) Truly. **그저**: Not special or important, but. **그제**: Two days before today. **그제**: On the day before yesterday. **그제야**: Only then, not until the time mentioned in the preceding statement. **그중**: Being among many things within a certain scope. **그토록**: To that extent, or as much as that. **극복**: Getting over a bad condition, difficult situation, etc. **극히**: Very; most **근거**: The basis of something or a certain opinion; or the reason. **근교**: Neighboring areas near a city. **근대**: The era between the Middle Ages and the contemporary age. **근데**: A word used to begin a conversation without a special meaning. **근래**: The days or years near the present. **근로자**: A person who is paid for doing physical or mental work for a given period of time. **근무**: The act of doing responsible duties at the workplace, or such work. **근본**: The environment in which one has grown up or one's family lineage. **근본적**: Something becoming the nature or foundation of something else. **근본적**: Being the nature or foundation of something. **근심**: A fearful and anxious feeling that something bad might occur. **근육**: The tendons and flesh which move the body of an animal or person. **긁다**: To pay by using a credit card when purchasing goods, etc. **금**: The fifth day from Monday in a week. **금**: A term used to indicated "golden color" or "goods made of gold". **금년**: The current year. **금액**: The expressed value of money. **금연**: The act by a smoker of quitting smoking. **금융**: The practice of coordinating and managing the supply and demand of funds in the economy. **금하다**: To restrain or repress a feeling. **급격히**: In the manner of a change happening very quickly. **급속히**: Very quickly. **급증**: The act of increasing rapidly wihin a short period of time. **급히**: In the manner of something flowing or going very fast. **긋다**: To remove a name from a list or remove a part of a writing. **긍정적**: A state of being desirable or considered favorably. **긍정적**: Desirable or being considered good. **기계**: (figurative) A person who acts independent of his/her thoughts or will. **기관**: A group or organization established to play a certain role or to benefit society. **기구**: A simple machine or tool. **기념**: Not forgetting and keeping the memory of an admirable person, special event, etc., for a long time. **기념일**: The day remembered every year on the same day as the day of a special occasion in the past. **기념품**: An object presented or purchased in memory of something. **기능**: A role and function assigned to a person in a certain area according to his or her authority, position, ability, etc. **기다**: (slang) To act humble or cowardly before someone. **기대**: Waiting and hoping for something to happen. **기대다**: To depend on another person. **기도**: The act of praying to the absolute being or the target of faith for a desired thing to be achieved. **기독교**: The religion of people who believe there is only one God who created heaven and earth, and worship Jesus Christ as their Savior. **기둥**: (figurative) In a family, group, or country, an important person or central thing that can be relied on. **기록**: In a sports game, etc., a player's record or performance shown in grades or numbers. **기말시험**: An exam taken at the end of a semester. **기반**: Something that becomes a foundation to do something. **기본**: The central and important thing in achieving something. **기본적**: Being the foundation or ground of something. **기본적**: Being the basis or root of something. **기부**: The act of giving money or property voluntarily and without expectation of return to help a person, institution, group, etc. **기사**: A technical expert with with certification recognized by the state or an organization. **기사**: A piece of writing in a newspaper or magazine to report certain facts. **기술**: A method or ability to handle or use things. **기술자**: A person who has special skills in a field. **기억력**: The mental ability to retain and retrieve previous figures, facts, knowledge, experiences, etc. **기업**: An organization doing business activities such as production, sales, distribution, etc., to gain profit. **기업가**: A person who organizes and manages business activities such as production, sales, services, etc., for profit. **기여**: Being helpful. **기운**: An effect or influence that occurs after taking medicine or drinking alcohol. **기울다**: To be worse than something when compared. **기울이다**: To concentrate one's sincerity or efforts into one. **기원**: The founding year of a country or religion. **기적**: An amazing thing believed to be done by an omniscient and omnipotent god. **기존**: The state of being already in existence. **기준**: The comparison items or measurement criteria used to tell or grade something. **기지개**: An act of extending two arms overhead, while stretching the body and legs. **기초**: A base for supporting the weight of a building or bridge. **기타**: Something similar to the aforementioned. **기혼**: The state of already being married. **기획**: Making a detailed plan of the procedure and content of an event in advance. **기후**: Average weather seen in a certain area over a period of several years. **긴급**: A very important and urgent situation. **긴팔**: Sleeves that reach down to the wrist, or clothes with long sleeves. **길가**: Both edges of a road. **길거리**: A street or road for people or cars to travel on. **길다**: For hair to grow. **김**: Carbon dioxide melted in soda. **깊이**: A state in which something displays a high standard. **까다**: (slang) To turn something inside out and show it. **까다롭다**: Someone's personality or taste being so difficult that it is hard to please him/her. **까닭**: A reason for or situation in which a certain thing happened or one did a certain thing. **까먹다**: To spend money on snacks. **깔끔하다**: A person's personality or skill being great without flaws. **깔다**: To put one's stomach on the floor. **깔리다**: For a hidden idea, emotion, thought, etc., to be the basis of something. **깜깜하다**: Having no knowledge or memory of a fact. **깜박하다**: Not to remember or pay attention. **깜빡**: In a manner of one's memory or conciousness being dim or lost. **깨**: A yellowish seed that smells and tastes good when roasted, added to dishes to enhance their flavors or squeezed into edible oil. **깨다**: To overcome a difficult obstacle, record, etc. **깨닫다**: To feel or realize a sensation, etc. **깨뜨리다**: To overcome or get over something that is difficult to conquer or win. **깨물다**: To hide one's emotion and choose not to speak out. **깨어나다**: For something changed to return to its original state. **깨우다**: To make one get out of a sleeping, drunk state, etc., and come back to one's sound mental state. **깨지다**: (slang) To lose a game, etc. **꺼지다**: (slang) To go somewhere else to disappear from sight. **꺾다**: To change the direction and turn. **껍질**: An old-fashioned formality that one is accustomed to. **껴안다**: To accept a matter, event, etc., generously. **꼬리**: The end of a certain thing or thought. **꼭**: In the manner of hiding or not coming out of a place so as not to be seen. **꼭대기**: The very top of one's head. **꼼꼼하다**: Paying much attention to detail, leaving nothing out, and being calm. **꼼꼼히**: In a thorough, careful, and composed manner. **꼼짝**: A word mimicking the manner of moving the body slowly and slightly. **꼽다**: To select and point out. **꼽히다**: To be selected and pointed out. **꽂다**: To throw something upside down and stick it in. **꽂히다**: For one's eyes to be fixed on a place. **꽃꽂이**: The act of arranging flowers, sprigs, etc., in containers such as a vase or basket. **꽃무늬**: A design with many flowers. **꽃잎**: A petal, a part of a whole flower. **꽉**: In a state of being fitting too tightly or too small. **꽤**: Considerably well more than expected. **꾸다**: To borrow money or something, promising to pay back or return later. **꾸리다**: To proceed with a task or live one's life. **꾸미다**: In grammar, to make the state, quality, degree, etc., of another constituent more detailed or clearer. **꾸준하다**: Consistent, with almost no changes. **꾸준히**: Consistently. **꾸중**: The act of an elder pointing out a mistake or wrongdoing of a younger person. **꿀**: Sweet, sticky liquid that honeybees collect from flowers and store in beehives. **꿇다**: To fail to move to a higher grade at the right time in school. **꿈꾸다**: To hope that something will come true or set an aim in one's mind. **꿈속**: An illusion removed from reality. **끄덕이다**: To lightly move one's head up and down. **끈**: The continuation or lasting of a certain emotion or effort. **끊기다**: For a continued service to be cut off. **끊어지다**: For a continued service to be cut off. **끊임없다**: Something that has been continued or connected being not interrupted. **끊임없이**: In such a manner that something that has been continued or connected is not interrupted. **끌다**: To make something long by pulling. **끌리다**: To be pulled by another force. **끌어당기다**: To make something/someone see something. **끌어안다**: To understand and embrace. **끝내**: At last, in the end. **끝없다**: Having no end or limit. **끝없이**: Without end or limit. **끼**: The unit of counting meals in a day. **끼다**: For a mood, air, etc., to be implied in one's face or voice. **끼다**: To be involved in or participate in something. **끼어들다**: To squeeze into a line of people; to interrupt. **끼우다**: To include in something. **끼이다**: To be involved in or participate in something. **끼치다**: For a smell or energy to rush in at once. **끼치다**: To influence other people or the society through something. **나뉘다**: For each share to be given separately. **나란히**: In the manner of two or more people or things being together. **나르다**: To carry an object to another place. **나름**: A bound noun used to refer to one's unique way of doing something, or his/her personality or situation. **나무라다**: To point out and let one know of one's mistake or the weakness of one's words, actions, or personality. **나물**: seasoned vegetables: A variety of Korean side dishes made by seasoning boiled, fried or uncooked edible grass, leaves, vegetables, etc. **나뭇가지**: A narrow branch, bough, twig, etc., diverging from a trunk. **나뭇잎**: A leaf sticking out from the trunk or branch of a tree. **나비**: A slender-bodied insect with broad, beautiful wings that sucks nectar through its long tube-shaped mouth. **나빠지다**: To become worse. **나서다**: For a wanted person, object, etc., to appear. **나아가다**: For something to make progress. **나아지다**: For one's situation or state to become much better. **나이프**: A knife used to slice up meat when eating Western-style cuisine. **나타내다**: To show one's thoughts or emotions through one's facial expressions, actions, etc. **낙엽**: Leaves fallen from trees, mainly during the fall. **난로**: Equipment to heat indoors using gas, oil, firewood, etc. as fuel or electricity. **난리**: (figurative) The act of making a noise about something out of surprise or excitement. **난방**: Warming the air in a room or building by raising the temperature. **난처하다**: Being in a very uncomfortable situation where it is difficult to decide what to do. **날개**: The part in a machine such as an electric fan, etc., that makes the wind. **날리다**: To cause something to move around on a wind. **날리다**: To lose all one's asset, data, etc. through a mistake or a fault. **날아가다**: (figurative) To vanish or disappear. **날아다니다**: To fly about from place to place. **날아오다**: (figurative) For a certain news to arrive unexpectedly. **날카롭다**: Having a high sensitivity in response. **낡다**: An idea, system, etc., being obsolete and behind the times. **남**: A person born as a man. **남**: One of four directions, east, west, south, and north, at which the S needle of a compass points. **남매**: The sons and daughters born of the same parents. **남미**: The southern part of the American continent, one of the world's six continents, which comprises countries such as Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, etc. **남부**: The southern part of an area. **남북**: North Korea and South Korea. **낭비**: The act of spending a lot of money, time, things, etc., without saving. **낮추다**: To speak in an addressee-lowering form. **낯설다**: Having not previously seen, heard of, or experienced something, and thus being not familiar with it. **낳다**: To cause someone to appear, in a certain environment or situation. **내**: A bound noun used to indicate that something is within a certain range or scope. **내내**: Continuously from beginning to end. **내놓다**: To eject or put out a substance made inside of something. **내다보다**: To forecast a future incident. **내달**: The month coming after this month. **내려놓다**: To carry someone to a certain place in a vehicle. **내려다보다**: To look down on someone, as a person inferior to oneself. **내려앉다**: To be transferred to a lower position. **내밀다**: To keep insisting one's opinion, argument, etc. **내버리다**: To not pay attention or take care. **내보내다**: To release someone from where he or she was locked up. **내부**: The inner space of an object. **내성적**: A personality which does not easily reveal emotions or thoughts. **내성적**: Having a personality of not revealing emotion or thoughts. **내세우다**: To reveal something intentionally in order to show it off. **내외**: The state of being a little less or a little more. **내주다**: To prepare something for someone. **내쫓다**: To deprive someone of his/her position by force. **내후년**: The year coming three years from this year. **낼모레**: The near future. **낼모레**: Two days from today. **냉동**: Refrigeration of fish or meat, etc., to prevent them from being spoiled. **냉방**: A room that has not been heated and thus gotten cold. **냉수**: Water that is cold or cool. **냉정하다**: A person's attitude being cold without kindness. **너그럽다**: Understanding others' situation and showing ample generosity. **너머**: The opposite side over a boundary or an obstacle. **너무나**: (emphasizing form) Very. **넉넉하다**: Generous. **널다**: To hang washed clothes out to be dried in the sun or wind. **널리**: With a generous mind. **넓어지다**: To be widened. **넓이**: The extent of a space or surface that a place or object occupies. **넓히다**: To make the content or scope of something cover wider areas. **넘겨주다**: To give goods, rights, obligations, tasks, etc., over to another person, or entrust such things to him/her. **넘기다**: To ignore something, thinking it unimportant **넘어가다**: To let go of a certain affair or problem without attaching any importance to it. **넘어뜨리다**: To bring one's power, status, etc., down. **넘어서다**: For one's mind or opinion to lean toward one side. **넘어오다**: To come over or across a boundary. **넘치다**: To exceed a certain standard, goal, size, amount, etc. **네모**: A shape with four corners and four sides; a quadrangle. **네티즌**: A person who does activities in cyberspace such as the Internet. **녀석**: (endearing) A bound noun used to refer to a boy. **년대**: A bound noun used to refer to the time from the first year of a 10, 100, or 1000-year-period to the year before moving over to the next period. **년도**: A bound noun used to refer to that specific year. **노동**: The act of moving one's body to work. **노동자**: A person who makes a living with money earned for doing physical work. **노랑**: The color of a banana or lemon. **노려보다**: To look piercingly at something with the purpose of taking or attacking it. **노선**: A guideline for views or actions that one follows to achieve a goal. **노선도**: The map of a bus or subway route, shown in simple lines. **노약자**: Old or weak people. **노트북**: A small, light, personal computer which is portable. **녹다**: To fall for or be addicted to something. **녹음**: The act of recording sounds on tapes or CDs using a machine, or the recorded sound. **녹음기**: A machine used to record sound or to play the recorded sound. **녹이다**: To dissolve a powdery substance, sugar, etc., and mix it with water or some other liquid. **녹화**: An act of recording real images or motions on a device in order to watch them again later. **논리**: A field of study that studies the forms and methods of thinking in order to understand and reach correct conclusions. **논리적**: A state of being skilled at logical thinking or reasoning. **논리적**: Good at thinking or reasoning. **논의**: Sharing different opinions about an issue and finding a solution. **논쟁**: People with different thoughts arguing by saying or writing to claim that their own idea is right. **놀랍다**: So strange or amazing as to make someone stunned. **놀리다**: To make a laughingstock of someone by taking advantage of his/her weak point or mistake. **놀리다**: To say carelessly. **놀이공원**: A park with various facilities or rides that people can see or use. **놀이터**: (figurative) A place where a certain group or person does their activity. **농민**: A person who does farming as a job. **농부**: A person who does farming as a job. **농사**: (figurative) The act of giving birth to and raising a child. **농사일**: Labor on a farm. **농산물**: Food obtained from farming such as rice, vegetables, fruits, etc. **농업**: The industry or job related to farming. **농촌**: A village in which farmers live. **높아지다**: For people who support a certain opinion to increase in number, or for their force to become strong. **높이다**: To look up to someone with respect; to speak with such an attitude. **높임말**: A form of speech used to address or refer to a person or an object in a deferential manner. **놓아두다**: To let someone do as he/she likes. **놓이다**: For a pattern, painting, letters, etc., to be carved. **놓치다**: To miss the right time or opportunity to do a certain thing. **놔두다**: To let someone do as he/she likes. **뇌**: An organ inside the skull, which manages the functions of feeling, thinking, behaving, and memorizing. **누님**: (honorific) A word used by an adult man to refer to or address an adult woman who is close to him. **눈가**: Parts around the eye. **눈감다**: To pretend not to know even though one knows another person's mistake or wrongdoing. **눈길**: (figurative) Attention or interest. **눈동자**: The black part in the center of an eyeball. **눈뜨다**: To come to know a new fact or principle. **눈병**: A disease that occurs in the eye. **눈부시다**: One's achievement or feat being amazing. **눈빛**: The light or energy seen in one's eyes. **눈사람**: Snow packed in the shape of a person **눈싸움**: A fun fight, throwing balls of snow at each other. **눈썹**: The hair growing above one's eyes or along the rims of one's eyes. **눈앞**: A near future. **눈치**: One's attitude or facial expression that lets others guess one's real intention or situation. **눕히다**: To put something down sideways. **느긋하다**: Keeping one's composure and not hurrying. **느끼하다**: Someone's way of behaving, speaking, etc., being greasy and thus making others feel rather nauseated. **늘리다**: To make time or a period longer than before. **늘어나다**: To become better off; for one's fortune to improve gradually. **늘어놓다**: To speak or write something unimportant in a lengthy manner. **늘어서다**: To stand in a long line. **늘이다**: To draw a line, etc., continuously so that it becomes longer. **늦가을**: Late autumn. **늦겨울**: The latter part of winter. **늦봄**: The latter part of spring. **늦어지다**: To be late. **늦여름**: The latter part of summer. **늦잠**: Sleeping late into the morning. **늦추다**: To relieve tension slightly. **님**: A bound noun to address a certain person deferentially. **다가가다**: To make someone feel familiar and friendly. **다가서다**: For a certain time to come near. **다가오다**: For a certain task or time to come near. **다녀가다**: To come to a certain place and leave. **다듬다**: To even a surface, etc. **다루다**: To make something the subject or topic. **다름없다**: Much the same as or similar to something. **다리다**: To press and rub a cloth or clothes with an iron in order to smooth out wrinkles or crease them. **다리미**: A tool heated and used to smooth out wrinkles of a cloth or clothes. **다림질**: The act of smoothing out the wrinkles of a cloth or clothes using an iron. **다만**: An adverb used at the beginning of a sentence, when it includes an exception or condition different from the content of the preceding sentence. **다물다**: To shut one's mouth by putting one's upper and lower lips together. **다방**: A restaurant for talking or taking a break while drinking tea, coffee, or another beverage. **다소**: Small amount or a lesser degree. **다소**: A little; to a certain degree. **다수**: A large number. **다운로드**: The act of moving data or files from the Internet to one's own computer. **다정**: Having a warm and loving personality. **다지다**: To make meat, vegetables, etc., into fine pieces with a knife. **다짐**: The act of making up one's mind to do something. **다투다**: To try to be better than others in a competitive manner. **다행**: A state of being lucky beyond expectation. **다행스럽다**: Seeming lucky because the situation is not as bad as expected. **다행히**: Luckily unexpected. **단**: A word that indicates there is only the amount of something. **단계**: Each stage of a process in which something changes. **단골**: A customer who visits a store frequently. **단기**: A short period of time. **단단하다**: Someone being smart and strong-willed. **단독**: Alone, apart from others. **단맛**: A feeling of pleasure and satisfaction. **단발머리**: Short hair reaching below one's ears or up to the shoulders. **단속**: The act of supervising so that law, rules, orders, etc., are not broken. **단순히**: Without any specific meaning. **단위**: A group that serves as the basis for forming an organization or activity. **단점**: A trait of one's personality that is defective or not admirable. **단정하다**: To conclude that something is certain and decide on it. **단정하다**: Looking clean or behaving oneself. **단지**: An area where the same-purpose buildings or facilities are built close to one another. **단지**: An adverb used at the beginning of a sentence, when it includes an exception or condition different from the content of the preceding sentence. **단체**: A group of many people. **닫히다**: For one's mouth to be shut, making oneself unable to speak. **달다**: To constantly have minor illnesses and frequently be sick. **달다**: For the speaker to request the listener for something. **달라지다**: To become different from before. **달래다**: To soothe a difficult feeling or physical pain. **달러**: (figurative) The currency of another country. **달러**: A bound noun that serves as a unit for American currency. **달려가다**: To run somewhere fast. **달려들다**: To do something in an active manner. **달려오다**: To arrive or come quickly at a fast speed. **달리**: Not ordinarily. **달리다**: For something to be absolutely influenced by something. **달빛**: Light shining from the moon. **달성**: A state in which a person has achieved a goal. **달아나다**: For time to pass quickly. **달콤하다**: Comfortable and cozy. **달하다**: To accomplish a purpose or goal. **닳다**: For oil or electricity to be used up. **담**: Something that is erected to enclose a house or other places. **담**: A subsequent result or consequence. **담그다**: To mix ingredients and put them into a container when making gimchi/kimchi, wine, jang, traditional Korean pastes or sauces, salted seafood, etc., so that they ripen or are fermented. **담기다**: For a certain content or idea to be expressed or contained in a picture, writing, or on one's face. **담다**: To express or contain a certain content or idea in a picture, writing, or on one's face. **담당**: A person in charge of something. **담당자**: A person in charge of something. **담백하다**: A color or light being pale, fresh, not deep. **담요**: A thin piece of bedding made of shag, etc., for covering one's body; a spread. **담임**: A state of being responsible for teaching students in a class or grade; a teacher in charge of a class or grade. **답변**: An act of answering a question or such an answer. **닷새**: The fifth day of the month. **당근**: An orange-colored root vegetable that has a sweet taste and the shape of a horn. **당기다**: To light a fire. **당당하다**: Vigor being huge and great. **당분간**: For a while from now. **당분간**: For a while and on into the future. **당시**: The period when something happened, or the previously-mentioned period. **당신**: (formal, highly addressee-raising) A pronoun used to indicate the person mentioned earlier. **당연하다**: Natural and rightful. **당연히**: Naturally and rightfully. **당일**: The very day. **당장**: Here and now. **당첨**: Winning a prize in a drawing of lots. **당하다**: To be relevant or equal to something. **당황**: A state in which a person is at a loss what to do as he/she is frightened or in a hurry. **닿다**: For a relationship to be built. **대**: One's determination not to give up one's will. **대**: A bound noun that serves as a unit for counting the frequency of giving injections or applying acupuncture. **대가**: One's efforts made to do something, or the result of the efforts. **대강**: A brief story which does not include details. **대강**: Simply, not in detail. **대개**: A state of being almost all **대개**: In general. **대규모**: A state of being large in size or wide in scope. **대기**: All of the air that surrounds the earth. **대기**: A state in which troops are put into readiness for war and waiting to be called out. **대기업**: A large enterprise with many employees and a large amount of capital. **대낮**: A bright daytime when the sun is high in the sky. **대다**: To disclose a fact and speak of it. **대다수**: A state of being almost all. **대단하다**: Very significant. **대단히**: Much more than an average degree. **대도시**: A large city with a big population, which is the center of political, economic, and cultural activities. **대략**: A short, simple plot without adding details. **대략**: When calculating by guessing in a rough manner. **대량**: A very large quantity. **대로**: The basic direction of one's activity to achieve a goal. **대리**: A position that replaces the duty of another position in an organization such as a company, or the person in such a position. **대립**: A thought, opinion, or stance being opposing or not consistent. **대문**: A large door for one's entrance and exit, which is usually located at the front of a house. **대변**: (refined) Human feces. **대비**: An act of comparing two things to examine their differences, or such a comparison. **대비**: An act of preparing in advance for a difficult situation in the future, or such a preparation. **대사**: A diplomatic official who is dispatched to another country as a representative of his/her country. **대사**: Words spoken by an actor or actress in a movie or play. **대상**: A person or thing that becomes the aim or object of a certain work or action. **대상자**: A person who is eligible for or subject to something. **대신**: A word used to indicate that the following content is different from or opposite to the previous content. **대여섯**: A number that is about five or six. **대여섯**: Of five or six. **대응**: A state in which two things are equivalent to each other. **대접**: The act of treating a person to food. **대조**: A contrast due to differences. **대중**: Something cheap or commonplace, enjoyed by many people because it suits the public's taste. **대중가요**: A song many people enjoy singing. **대중교통**: Transportation modes used by the general public such as the bus or subway. **대중문화**: The culture created and enjoyed by the general public. **대책**: A plan that enables one to overcome a difficult situation. **대처**: Acting appropriately to manage or deal with a difficult thing or situation . **대청소**: Cleaning the whole house or a place. **대체**: Using something of a similar function in the position of another. **대체로**: Generally, or in most cases. **대출**: An act of lending or borrowing money or goods. **대충**: In a somewhat slapdash manner. **대통령**: In a republican system, a person who represents a country and holds the highest position in the administration; or such a position. **대표**: A person who is responsible for or who exercises the rights of an organization or group. **대표적**: A quality of being extremely outstanding or excellent enough to represent a certain group or sector. **대표적**: Extremely outstanding or excellent enough to represent a certain group or sector. **대하다**: To read or appreciate a piece of art, etc. **대한민국**: A country located in southern East Asia; it consists of the Korean Peninsula and affiliated islands; divided into South Korea and North Korea since the 1953 ceasefire agreement, it is called either Korea or South Korea; the official language is Korean and the capital is Seoul. **대형**: A thing large in size or scale among the same kind of objects. **댐**: A bank built to control the amount of water and generate electric power by keeping out river or seawater. **더구나**: On top of that; moreover. **더러워지다**: To lose one's honor, chastity, etc. **더럽히다**: To damage or tarnish one's reputation or honor. **더불다**: For something to happen simultaneously, or to do something with another thing together. **더욱더**: (emphasizing form) More **더욱이**: In addition to something mentioned in the preceding statement. **더위**: The hotness of summer or hot weather. **더하다**: For a level or state to be intensified. **덕**: The achievements accrued and the virtuous character built by doing good deeds. **덕택**: The favor or help provided by someone. **덜**: To a weaker or lesser degree than a certain standard or the object of comparison. **덜다**: To lessen pain or difficulty. **덧붙이다**: To make an addition to something that already exists or that one has been working on. **덩어리**: A person or object that has such a quality or does such actions. **덮다**: To suppress a power, ability, etc. **덮이다**: For content not to be revealed. **데**: A bound noun meaning a case or situation. **데다**: To experience a big surprise or suffering, so that one is fed up. **데리다**: To make a person or animal stay together. **데우다**: To make something cold become warm. **데치다**: To put in boiling water for a short time and cook slightly. **도**: A province, or the largest local administrative district that has jurisdiction over a si, gun, etc., in Korea. **도구**: A means for achieving a goal. **도난**: An act of being robbed. **도대체**: Asking just out of curiosity. **도둑**: A person who steals someone else's belongings or takes them without permission. **도로**: To the original state. **도리어**: In the manner of being against or contrary to one's expectation or a general assumption. **도마**: A wide plastic or wooden board on which food ingredients are cut or minced with a knife. **도망**: The act of running away when chased by or trying to avoid someone or something. **도망가다**: To run away from something or someone because one is either chased or wants to avoid it or him/her. **도망치다**: To run away when chased by or in order to avoid someone or something. **도무지**: Needless to say, completely. **도서**: A bound collection of printouts that describe a certain thought, feeling, story, etc., according to a fixed topic or form. **도시락**: Food contained in a small box for eating outside. **도심**: The center of a city. **도입**: The first part of a novel or unit of study, after which the main parts begin. **도자기**: Earthenware made by pouring water into soil, blunging, shaping, drying, and baking at a high temperature. **도장**: An item made by cutting a material such as wood or crystal and engraving a name on it, which an individual or group uses to indicate they have confirmed something. **도저히**: No matter how one may try. **도전**: (figurative) An act of facing difficulties in order to obtain a valuable or targeted thing. **도중**: A state of being in the middle of doing something. **독**: An extremely fierce, evil energy. **독감**: An epidemic disease, similar to a severe cold. **독립**: The possession of its own complete sovereignty by one country. **독일어**: The language that most Germans and Austrians speak. **독자**: A person who reads books, newspapers, magazines, etc. **독특하다**: Particularly different compared to others. **독하다**: Having a strong will. **돌**: first birthday: One year from the day a baby was born. **돌**: A bound noun that serves as a unit for counting the number of the times that a certain day recurs. **돌려받다**: To get back something that was lent, taken away, or given. **돌려보내다**: To send back a person or object to the place where he/she/it was before. **돌멩이**: A stone one can hold in one hand. **돌보다**: To manage something with interest. **돌아다니다**: For a disease, rumor, etc., to spread widely. **돌아보다**: To take an interest in and look after something. **돌아서다**: To go around a place and pass by. **동**: A word meaning eastern part. **동**: A government office of a 'dong,' an administrative district, which provides civil services to the residents of the district. **동그라미**: Something having a round shape. **동그랗다**: Cute and clearly round. **동기**: A person who joined a school, company, training center, club, etc. at the same time as someone else. **동기**: The cause or opportunity that causes one to do something. **동료**: A person with whom one works at one's workplace. **동부**: The eastern part of an area. **동서남북**: North, South, East, West; all directions; everywhere. **동아리**: A group of people who have the same hobby or purpose. **동양**: Asia's eastern and southern region including Korea, Japan and China. **동양인**: An Asian. **동영상**: A moving picture often watched on the computer. **동요**: A song for children that they can sing along to. **동의**: An approval on another person's action. **동일**: The state of being one instead of different things. **동작**: A machine, etc. working properly. **동창**: A person who graduated from the same school in the same year. **동창회**: A gathering of people who graduated from the same school. **동포**: A person from the same country or of the same nationality. **동호회**: A gathering of people who enjoy the same hobby. **동화**: A story written for children, or a literary work that includes such a story. **동화책**: A book of stories that children like to read. **되게**: Extremely. **되도록**: As much as one can. **되돌리다**: To give back something. **되돌아가다**: To return to the former state. **되돌아오다**: To return to the former state or the past. **되살리다**: To inscribe the meaning of a remark, writing, behavior, etc., again. **되살아나다**: For a feeling, emotion, memory, etc., that have been forgotten, to occur to one's mind again. **되찾다**: To recover what was lost, forgotten, or missing. **되풀이**: The act of repeating the same words or event, or an event happening repetitively. **두께**: The degree of thickness of an object. **두뇌**: A person or organization that has the function of overall command. **두드러지다**: To appear clearly in the outside. **두드리다**: To do something roughly by guesswork. **두려움**: A feeling of fear and concern, or such a feeling. **두려워하다**: To feel difficult or reluctant to meet another person. **두렵다**: Feeling anxious and uneasy. **두르다**: To express something indirectly. **두리번거리다**: To open one's eyes wide and keep looking around. **두어**: About two. **두통약**: Headache pain relief drugs. **둘러보다**: To look around here and there. **둘러싸다**: To have something as an issue. **둘러싸이다**: To be blocked or hidden by being encircled. **둘레**: The length around the periphery of an object. **둥글다**: A person's personality being suave, generous, and not picky. **둥지**: A round-shaped container made by a bird out of grass, twigs, etc., to live or lay eggs in. **뒤늦다**: Late because the proper time to do something was missed. **뒤따르다**: To do the same thing as a predecessor. **뒤떨어지다**: To not fit in with the trends or fashions of one's times or society, and fall behind. **뒤지다**: For a time or period to be later than those of others. **뒤지다**: To take a good look at a book, document, paper, etc. **뒤집다**: To open one's eyes very widely. **뒤편**: A back part of something or an area located at the back. **뒷골목**: (figurative) The dark side of the world where crimes such as violence, etc., occur frequently. **뒷모습**: The appearance seen from the back. **뒷문**: (figurative) An improper means or method used to resolve an issue or problem. **뒷산**: The mountain in the back when one faces two mountains, one behind the other. **드나들다**: To act or be shaped unevenly. **드라이**: A cleaning method that dissolves stains off of clothes with chemicals instead of water. **드라이브**: A division of the space of a disk in a computer. **드라이어**: A machine that dries the moisture of an object by applying heat or sending hot air, etc. **드라이클리닝**: A method of cleaning that uses chemicals rather than water to make clothes clean. **드러나다**: To be more noticeable than others. **드러내다**: To express one's attitude, feeling, or individuality. **드레스**: An one-piece woman's outfit originally worn in the West. **드물다**: Not common. **든든하다**: Eating or wearing a sufficient amount. **듣기**: The ability to listen to another person's words and understanding them. **들려오다**: For a certain sound, news, etc., to be heard. **들려주다**: To have someone listen to a sound or remark. **들리다**: For a ghost to possess one's body. **들리다**: For something that is lower down to be lifted. **들어서다**: To conceive an embryo. **들어주다**: To accept someone's request, demand, etc. **들여다보다**: To drop by a place and see. **들이다**: To start to have fun in something or become attached to someone. **들키다**: For others to find out something intended to be hidden. **등**: A bound noun used after listing two or more things to refer to them only. **등**: A bound noun indicating a level or rank. **등기**: Mail that acts as proof of having been sent to the sender and receives confirmation from the receiver that it has been received, or such mail. **등록**: The act of registering a name, etc., in a document in order to receive a permit or acknowledgment. **등록금**: The money paid upon the registration of a student at educational institutions such as a school or institute. **등록증**: A document that proves registration. **등산복**: Clothes to wear when hiking. **등장**: The appearance of a character in a novel, play, movie, etc. **디자이너**: A person whose job is to design a popular hair style or a product. **디지털**: The act, process, or result of changing all manner of phenomena in the world, such as time, sound, intensity, etc., into numbers, and processing and displaying them. **따님**: (polite form) Another person's daughter. **따다**: To borrow a name or meaning. **따라가다**: To do exactly according to a method, someone's order, or form of behavior. **따라다니다**: For a certain feeling, thought, phenomenon, etc., to linger in one's mind, despite one's will. **따라서**: An adverb used when a statement is the reason for, grounds for, or condition of the following statement. **따라오다**: For a certain incident to happen at the same time as another incident. **따로따로**: Singly without being together with or being mixed with others. **따르다**: To be decided according to a certain thing. **따르다**: To tilt an object that contains liquid and have the liquid flow out, little by little. **따르릉**: A word imitating the sound of the small bell of a bicycle, a doorbell, telephone, alarm, etc., ringing. **따지다**: To think or count based on something. **딱**: In the state of adhering tightly to something. **딱딱하다**: The style or content of a writing being uninteresting, boring, or not showing various emotions. **딴**: Other than the one concerned. **땅바닥**: Ground not covered with anything. **땅속**: A place below the ground. **땅콩**: A savory type of reddish brown nut which grows in the soil inside a thick shell and thin inner skin. **때**: A wordly quality that lacks innocence. **때때로**: From time to time, depending on the situation. **때로**: Once in a while. **때리다**: (disparaging) To do something carelessly and randomly. **떠나가다**: For a sound to be made that is so noisy and loud as to vibrate the surrounding area. **떠나오다**: To leave a place where one has been and come to another place. **떠오르다**: To appear as the object of attention. **떠올리다**: To make a certain expression revealed on one's face. **떨다**: To repeat a certain act lightly and carelessly. **떨리다**: For one's voice to vibrate more than usual. **떨어뜨리다**: To make people break up or estranged from each other. **떼**: Many people or animals gathered at one place. **떼다**: To stop doing something that was done daily at an early stage of development. **또다시**: Again repeatedly. **또한**: In addition to that. **똑똑히**: Intelligently and wisely. **똥**: A card with paulowinia on it that is used in hwatu, a Korean card game. **뚜껑**: A thing that is used for closing the opening at the top of a container, box, pen, etc. **뚜렷하다**: Certain or clear, not vague. **뚫다**: To discover a way or method to resolve a problem. **뚫리다**: For a way or method to resolve a problem to be discovered. **뛰다**: To step on one end of a wooden panel, stomp, and jump up and down. **뛰어나다**: A person's ability, etc., being better or more excellent than others. **뛰어나오다**: To come running quickly out of somewhere. **뛰어내리다**: To jump down from a certain place quickly. **뛰어넘다**: To excel a certain range or level by far. **뛰어놀다**: To play while jumping here and there. **뛰어다니다**: (figurative) To busily move about here and there. **뛰어들다**: To actively participate in a certain work, activity, incident, etc. **뜨다**: (slang) To become famous as one gains popularity. **뜨다**: To cut out or cut off a piece of cloth from a bigger piece of cloth to make clothes. **뜯다**: To take someone's money or goods away despite his/her resistance. **뜰**: Flat, empty land that adjoins a house. **뜻대로**: As one has decided or as one wishes. **뜻밖**: A thing that one did not expect or think of. **뜻밖에**: In the manner of being against one's expectation or thought. **띄다**: To become curious strongly to hear an unexpected news. **띠**: In a hwatu game, cards with red or blue long squares. **띠**: Chinese zodiac sign: A word that shows a person's year of birth with the names of twelve animals. **띠다**: To show a certain trait, form of energy, etc. **량**: A word that shows the amount or quantity of something. **레몬**: A yellow, oval fruit that tastes and smells very sour. **렌즈**: A thinly layered product directly attached to the cornea of eyes instead of glasses. **렌터카**: A car rented for a certain period by paying money. **로그인**: The act of entering the name and password of the user which have already been registered in advance, in order to use a computer or internet site. **로봇**: (figurative) A person who acts only as told to by others instead of acting on his own will. **리듬**: A regularly repeated pattern of life, etc. **리모컨**: A device that controls home appliances such as the television, video player, etc., from a distance. **리본**: A long band with a handle, used as an instrument in rhythmic gymnastics. **리터**: A bound noun that serves as a unit for measuring the amount of liquid or gas. **마구**: At random without a rule or plan. **마냥**: To the extent of being more than the average. **마늘**: A vegetable with round cloves clustered in a circle, which has a unique smell and used widely for seasoning or side dishes. **마디**: In a musical score, the parts divided by vertical lines. **마땅하다**: Right, reasonable, or natural. **마땅히**: Appropriately in a certain condition or situation. **마라톤**: A race in athletics in which one runs 42.195km in one go. **마련**: A plan or idea prepared for a situation. **마련**: A bound noun used to indicate that it is natural for something to happen. **마루**: In a house, a space between rooms, shared by every family member. **마무리**: The concluding part of an editorial. **마사지**: The act of rubbing a cream or oil, etc., over the skin in order to make it beautiful and healthy. **마약**: A drug that when taken or injected causes general loss of feeling or hallucinations and that when used also often causes addiction. **마우스**: A computer device set on top of a desk that fits in the palm of the hand and which is used to move, drag or click the cursor on the computer screen. **마음가짐**: An attitude or manner towards something. **마음껏**: As much as one pleases or wants. **마음대로**: As and when one likes. **마음먹다**: To determine or think that one would do a certain thing. **마음속**: Deep down in one's heart. **마음씨**: One's disposition and the way in which one expresses one's feelings and heart. **마이크**: A machine that changes sound into electric currents to make the sound louder. **마주**: In the same way, just following the act of the other party. **마주치다**: To face an occasion or situation. **마찬가지**: A state in which the conditions of two things appear to be or are the same. **마찰**: Conflict between people or groups because of their different thoughts or ideas. **마치**: Expressing one thing by likening it to another. **마침**: By chance, in the manner of being perfectly good for a certain opportunity or moment. **마침내**: Finally, in the end. **막**: Right at the moment. **막**: In a careless and reckless manner. **막내**: In an organization or meeting, a person who is the youngest. **막다**: To find money to repay a debt or repay or settle a debt. **막대기**: A long and narrow piece of wood, metal, glass, etc. **막상**: Unlike what one presumed previously, as one actually encounters something. **막연하다**: Obscure, not clear. **막차**: The last bus or train for the day. **만**: A word used to indicate that a certain period of time, including a day, week, month, year, age, etc., has fully passed. **만남**: A meeting. **만만하다**: Easy to talk to or to handle without difficulty. **만원**: A place reaching its maximum capacity. **만점**: A state of being completely satisfied without lacking anything. **만족**: The state of having no more expectations or needs, or liking the situation. **만족스럽다**: Pleased as something expected or needed is achieved completely or is satisfactory. **많아지다**: For a number, amount, etc., to not be small and come to exceed a certain standard. **말기**: The end of a certain period. **말끔히**: To do something in a manner that leaves something bright and clean without dust or a scratch. **말다**: To wrap something by rolling it with a thin, wide object. **말다**: To put cooked rice, noodles, etc., in water or soup and mix it. **말다툼**: The act of debating in order to tell right from wrong. **말리다**: To keep someone from doing a certain act. **말리다**: To make an emotion disappear. **말없이**: Silently without any complaints. **말투**: One's habit or manner of speaking. **말하기**: The act of expressing one's ideas, feelings, opinions, etc., in words. **맘**: One's will or intention to do something. **맘껏**: As much as one likes. **맘대로**: As one likes. **망가지다**: For something to have problems with its original functions, or be in a bad state. **망설이다**: To not decide one's mind or attitude and hesitate. **망치다**: To ruin something or make something into an unusable state. **망하다**: An expression shot at someone or something who one hates as a curse. **맞다**: To accept someone as a family member. **맞다**: For a shot or thrown object to touch another object, or be touched by such an object. **맞벌이**: Both the husband and wife having jobs and working for a living, or the jobs held by a married couple. **맞서다**: To accept a certain situation or bear the situation. **맞은편**: The opposite side. **맞이하다**: To accept someone as a new family member. **맞춤법**: The fixed rules that one needs to keep when writing. **맞히다**: To give the correct answer to a question. **맡기다**: To have a certain work handled as someone wishes. **맡다**: To win official permission or approval for something. **맡다**: To notice or realize the situation of or sign for something. **매**: A stick with which to beat a person or animal, or the act of beating with such a stick. **매달다**: To kill someone by binding his/her neck. **매달리다**: To rely or depend on something. **매력**: Power by which a person's mind is attracted to someone or something. **매번**: Each and every time. **매번**: Whenever something happens. **매운맛**: (figurative) A painfully bitter feeling. **매운탕**: A spicy stew made by boiling fish and vegetables with red pepper paste. **매장**: A place that sells things. **매점**: A small shop or a vendor stall selling goods within facilities or an organization. **매진**: A state in which all the products or tickets are sold and none is left. **매체**: A substance that transmits an action to another place. **맨**: Reaching the highest degree. **맨발**: A foot that is not wearing a sock or shoe. **맺다**: To build a relationship with someone. **머리칼**: Each strand of hair. **머릿속**: In one's head, thoughts, mind. **머무르다**: To stay at a certain range or level. **머물다**: To stay at a certain range or level, not advancing further. **머뭇거리다**: To keep hesitating, not speaking or acting right away. **먹고살다**: To lead one's life by making money. **먹이**: Food that animals need to eat in order to live, or food for domesticated animals. **먹이다**: To breed livestock. **먹히다**: To cost money. **먼지**: A very small, light particle in the air or settled on objects. **멀미**: A feeling of dislike so strong that one does not even want to think about it. **멀어지다**: For a close relationship to become less close. **멀쩡하다**: Very tidy and clean without dirt. **멋대로**: Haphazardly as one pleases. **멋지다**: Very good or stylish. **멍**: (figurative) A psychological wound or shock caused by a certain event. **멍멍**: A word imitating the sound of a dog barking. **멎다**: For snow, rain, etc., to stop falling. **메뉴판**: A board on which the kinds of food and their prices that a restaurant offers are written. **메달**: A flat, round piece of metal with an inscription or image engraved on it, given as a prize or commemoration. **메모지**: A piece of paper used to write a memo on, or a piece of paper with a memo on it. **메우다**: To fill in a vacancy with what one is short of. **멜로디**: The flow of notes with highs and lows and a rhythm. **며느리**: The wife of one's son. **면**: Each page in a book or newspaper. **면담**: A meeting to discuss personal problems or issues in private. **면도**: A blade used for cutting off the beard or hair on one's face or body. **면적**: The size of a flat or curved surface. **면접**: A test usually given after a written test to evaluate the applicant's personality, words, act, etc by meeting him/her in person. **면하다**: To be out of a certain difficult state or situation. **면허**: An official authorization by a state for doing a certain act or business. **면허증**: A government-issued document stating that its holder has skill or competence in a certain field. **멸치**: A kind of sea fish with a silver-white belly and dark-blue back, about 13 cm. long, which is salted or dried in order to be made into side dishes. **명**: The proper name of a person or thing. **명단**: A table or a document that has names of people who are involved in a matter. **명령**: The designation of action such as ignition, pause, continuation, input/output, etc., on a computer. **명예**: A special name given to honor and show respect for a person's achievement and authority. **명함**: A small piece of paper on which one's name, occupation, address, contact number, etc, are printed to promote oneself. **명확하다**: Clear and sure. **몇몇**: (emphasizing form) An unknown number that is not big. **몇몇**: (emphasizing form) An indefinite, small number of. **모**: A word meaning 'somebody.' **모**: Unnamed, or a certain. **모금**: The act or process of collecting donations or contributions, etc. **모니터**: The act of using a product upon request by its manufacturer and giving one's opinion, or a person who does such work. **모델**: In a photo, painting, sculpture, etc., a figure or thing used as the object of expression. **모래**: Grains of rock that have been broken into tiny pieces by the force of nature. **모범**: An exemplary act worth following and learning, or a person who does such an act. **모여들다**: For many people to come to a certain place. **모자**: Mother and son. **모집**: An act of selecting or collecting people, works, goods, etc. according to a certain criteria through advertisement or announcement. **모처럼**: After a very long time. **모험**: The act of doing something knowing that it will be difficult or dangerous. **목**: The fourth day of the week, starting with Monday. **목구멍**: A deep opening inside the neck that leads to other inside parts of the body. **목록**: A series of names, titles, etc., written down in a certain order. **목마르다**: Wanting something strongly. **목사**: A cleric with some qualifications to manage the church, lead worship and guide the spiritual life of the believers. **목숨**: The state of a human or animal breathing and staying alive. **목적지**: A place one wants to go to. **목표**: A spot that one has set as one's target. **몫**: A number obtained by dividing one number by another. **몰다**: To have a situation reach an undesirable state. **몰라보다**: To not realize the true value of something. **몰래**: In such a manner that others would not notice. **몰려들다**: For a lot of feelings, emotions, or energy, etc., to occur at the same time. **몰려오다**: To feel a surge of a lot of feelings. **몰리다**: To be situated in a difficult or disadvantageous state. **몸매**: The way one's body looks or appears. **몸무게**: The weight of one's body. **몸살**: A condition caused by extreme fatigue where one's body aches all over and he/she suffers from exhaustion and fever. **몸속**: A state of being inside the body. **몸짓**: A movement or motion of parts of the body. **몸통**: A central part of a certain thing or work. **몹시**: Very severely. **못**: A thin metallic item with a pointed end that is used to fasten two objects together or driven into the wall to hang something on it. **못나다**: Not smart or lacking an ability. **못되다**: Ugly and not pretty in appearance. **못지않다**: Not inferior or worse than others. **몽땅**: Everything, as much as one can, at once. **묘사**: An act of giving a detailed account of a certain object in spoken or written words, or expressing it in paintings as it stands. **무관심**: An act of showing no interest or paying no attention. **무관하다**: Being in a close relationship with each other. **무기**: (figurative) An important means or tool for doing or accomplishing a work. **무너지다**: To lose in a sports game, etc. **무늬**: A variety of shapes inserted for decoration. **무대**: (figurative) The setting of a story. **무더위**: Heat that is unbearable. **무덤**: An underground place where the body or bones of a dead person are buried. **무덥다**: Very hot and steamy due to high humidity and temperature. **무려**: In a state in which the number or amount is larger than one thought. **무렵**: A bound noun meaning a time that corresponds approximately to a certain period. **무리**: A harm caused by overdoing a certain work. **무사히**: Safely without any problem or difficulty. **무서워하다**: To be afraid of a certain object. **무시**: The act of belittling or disvaluing another person. **무역**: The business of buying and selling goods among countries. **무용**: An art that expresses beauty through body movements that match music. **무의미**: A state of having no meaning or value. **무조건**: The state of having no conditions. **무조건**: Without calculating anyting or without any particular reason or condition. **무지개**: A half circle beam of seven colors that appears in the sky opposite the sun after rain. **무책임**: A state of assuming no responsibility for a given task or related matters. **묵다**: To stay in a place as a guest. **묵묵히**: Quietly without saying a word. **묶다**: To bind someone or something to one another so that they remain together. **묶이다**: For many to be combined in one system. **문구점**: A store that sells objects necessary for studying or working, such as paper, pencils, erasers, etc. **문득**: A word describing an act being done suddenly. **문명**: An advanced state of material, technological and social life for humans. **문방구**: A store that sells objects necessary for studying or working, such as notebooks, pencils, etc. **문법**: A system that describes certain rules of speech academically or educationally. **문병**: The act of visiting and comforting a sick or injured person. **문서**: Paper with information in writing to be used for something or as proof to verify a fact. **문의**: The act of asking about something that one is curious about and discussing the matter. **문자**: (figurative) Knowledge or learning. **문장**: A basic unit that comprises a speech and writing, which indicates one complete meaning through a form of description, question, imperative, exclamation, etc. **문제점**: A part or element that is a problem. **문학**: An art that expresses people's thoughts or emotions through words or writings such as poems, novels, essays, plays, etc. **문화재**: Relics or remains that have high cultural value, and thus are or should be protected by law. **문화적**: A quality of being related to culture. **문화적**: Being related to culture. **묻다**: To be contained or mixed together. **묻다**: To be seated deeply in an armchair or comforter. **묻히다**: For an appearance to become invisible as it is blocked by something, or for a sound to become inaudible as it is blocked by something. **묻히다**: To make liquid, powder, etc., be stuck to another object or leave a trace. **물가**: The edge of the water like the sea or river. **물가**: The average prices of goods or services. **물감**: A material used to draw a picture or dye cloth or clothes. **물결**: (figurative) A shape or phenomenon that resembles the movement of a wave. **물기**: The dampness of water. **물다**: To hold in one's mouth. **물들다**: To resemble someone or something under the influence of his/her or its environment, act, or ideas, etc. **물러나다**: For things stuck tightly together to break apart. **물러서다**: To give up after confronting and enduring a certain situation. **물리다**: (slang) For something or someone of interest to be owned by someone else. **물소리**: A sound made when water flows or strikes against something. **물속**: An area beneath the surface of water. **물약**: A medicine in the form of a liquid. **물음**: The act of asking, or the words of inquiry. **물질**: An element that occupies part of space and has mass. **물질적**: A quality of being related to material things. **물질적**: Being related to materials. **뭉치다**: For agony, anger, sorrow, grudge, etc., to form in one's mind. **뭘**: An exclamation used as a humble response to someone's praise or gratitude for something, indicating that the person should think nothing of it. **뮤지컬**: A performance with a plot, showing the combination of music, singing and dancing on a big stage. **미끄럽다**: So soft without rough parts that things glide by themselves on it. **미니**: A very short Western skirt that falls down to the upper part of one's knees. **미디어**: Text or images which serve as a vehicle to deliver information. **미련**: A feeling of being still attached to something that should be forgotten or given up. **미루다**: To guess something based on the facts that one already knows. **미만**: The state of not reaching a certain quantity or amount. **미성년자**: A person who is not yet of the legal age for adulthood. **미소**: A facial expression with the lips curved upwards and without sound. **미술**: The visual expression of beauty like a painting or sculpture. **미용사**: A person whose job is to trim people's hair or take care of people's skin. **미움**: The emotion or a feeling of disliking something. **미인**: A woman who has a beautiful face or figure. **미장원**: A shop that people go to have their hair cut, dyed, or permed, or to receive makeup service. **미지근하다**: Behavior, an attitude, relation, etc., being vague, not clear. **미처**: In advance, before a certain action, motion, thought, etc., reaches a certain level or state. **미치다**: To be overly into. **미치다**: For an impact or influence to be exerted upon a certain object, or to exert it on something. **미팅**: A social gathering of several men and women. **미혼**: The state of being not yet married, or such a person. **민속놀이**: Play conducted according to the customs formed among the lives of ordinary people and handed down among the people. **민족**: A group of people who have formed their own unique language, culture, and history while living together in a certain region over a long period of time. **민주주의**: An ideology which aims at government for the people, in which they have sovereignty. **믿음**: A religious faith. **밀리다**: To fall behind one's opponent because one is less powerful. **밀리다**: To be moved after being demolished, or disappear after being cut off. **밀리미터**: A bound noun used as a unit of length. **밉다**: Ugly and not pretty in appearance. **및**: And also. **밑바닥**: (figurative) The state of having nothing or the lowest rung on the quality-of-life ladder. **밑줄**: A line drawn horizontally under the important parts of a piece of writing, used as a punctuation mark. **바**: A bound noun used to emphasize one's opinion. **바가지**: A fare or price that is much higher than the fair price. **바구니**: The unit for counting the number of baskets after putting small things into them. **바늘**: A thin item with a pointed end that has a conduit inside it for forcing air or liquid like intravenous medication into a person or object. **바닷물**: Water in the sea, which tastes salty and fishy. **바둑**: A competing game in which two people alternately place black and white pieces respectively on a square board with vacant intersections of a grid. **바람**: Longing for something to happen as one thinks. **바람직하다**: Deserving to be considered good. **바래다주다**: To go with someone who is leaving to a certain point to see them off. **바로잡다**: To correct something wrong or unrighteous. **바르다**: Bright and warm as it gets a lot of sun. **바보**: (insult) A stupid and foolish person. **바싹**: A word describing one finishing something quickly at once. **바위**: In a rock-paper-scissors game, the act of clenching one's fist and holding it out, or such a hand. **바치다**: To donate something of value for a worthy event. **바퀴**: An object made round in order to spin or roll. **바퀴**: A bound noun that serves as a unit for counting the number of times a person circles a certain area. **바탕**: The entire side that becomes the background of a picture, pattern, piece of embroidery, etc. **박**: A bound noun that serves as a unit for counting the number of nights a person stays away from home. **박다**: To speak accurately and slowly or to write down something clearly so that anyone can understand it. **박사**: (figurative) A person who has profound knowledge about something or knows a certain area well. **박스**: A space enclosed by four lines used to separate a certain section of writing from the rest of the text. **박히다**: For a mole, freckles, etc., to appear on one's face. **반값**: Half of the original price. **반기다**: To show a pleased response when one meets someone one has missed or something good has happened. **반납**: The act of giving back a borrowed or received thing. **반달**: The semicircular, white part at the base of a fingernail or toenail. **반대말**: A word that has the opposite meaning. **반대쪽**: The side of which the direction or position is the opposite. **반말**: A speech used to talk down to a younger or inferior person. **반면**: A state in which the meaning of following words are opposite to that of preceding words. **반발**: The act of opposing a state, action, etc. **반복**: An act of doing the same work several times. **반성**: The act of realizing and repenting one's mistake. **반영**: The display of a phenomenon by being influenced by another person's opinion, fact, situation, etc. **반응**: A chemical change that occurs when two or more substances affect each other. **반장**: A person who represents his/her class in school. **반죽**: A state in which a variety of things are mixed up. **반짝거리다**: For a series of small lights to keep appearing briefly and disappearing; or to make this happen. **반짝반짝**: A word describing many people staying up, or one staying up several nights in a row. **반짝이다**: For small lights to appear briefly and disappear; or to make this happen. **반창고**: Cloth or tape lined on one side with an adhesive substance, to attach ointment, bandage, etc., to the skin. **반팔**: A clothing of which the sleeves are short enough to show one's elbows. **반품**: The act of returning an already purchased product, or the product returned. **반하다**: To be attracted by someone or something as if one were enchanted. **받아들이다**: To agree to an opinion, criticism, etc., and follow it. **받침**: A consonant written under the vowel of a syllable when writing in the Korean alphabet. **발걸음**: The act of coming and going. **발견**: The act of finding out for the first time a thing that has not been discovered yet or was unknown to the world. **발급**: The act of making and giving a certificate, etc., at an institution. **발길**: A foot that is stretched forward forcefully. **발꿈치**: (figurative) The lowest level of one's ability or attention. **발끝**: (figurative) The lowest level of one's ability or qualification. **발달**: A gradual growth of the power, size, etc., of something. **발등**: The top part of the foot. **발명**: An act of conceiving and creating a new technology or product for the first time. **발목**: The part that joins the leg and the foot. **발생**: A happening of an event or generation of a matter. **발음**: The act of making a speech sound, or such a speech sound. **발자국**: A measure of the distance from raising to landing of a foot. **발전**: The act of unfolding in a certain direction. **발톱**: The hard part that is covering and protecting the end of the toe. **발표**: The act of revealing and announcing a certain fact, result, work of art, etc., to the world. **발표회**: A public meeting which presents or showcases artistic or academic achievements in creative areas such as dance or music. **발행**: The act of issuing the currency, securities, official documents, etc. **밝혀내다**: To judge the truth, value, or right and wrong of something and show the result. **밝혀지다**: For the truth, value, right and wrong , fact, etc., of something to be revealed and made known. **밝히다**: To give hope for the future. **밟다**: (figurative) To arrive in a certain place. **밟히다**: For a weak person to be bullied by a stronger person. **밤**: A brown fruit, encased in a prickly burr with a bitter-tasting inner skin, which can be eaten raw, cooked or boiled. **밤낮**: Day and night. **밤낮**: All the time; days and nights. **밤늦다**: Being an advanced hour of the night. **밤새**: The time from the evening to the next day morning. **밤새다**: For morning to come after a night. **밤새우다**: To spend a night without sleeping. **밤색**: The color of a well-ripened chestnut's skin. **밤중**: The middle of the night. **밥그릇**: (slang) A job for making a living. **밥맛**: The appetite to eat a meal. **밥솥**: A cooker for making rice. **방면**: A field of activity. **방바닥**: The floor of a room. **방송사**: A company that transmits all kinds of broadcasting programs by radio, television, etc. **방식**: A certain method or format. **방안**: A method or plan to handle a matter. **방울**: The unit for counting a small mass of liquid formed in a round shape. **방지**: The act of preventing a bad thing or phenomenon from happening. **방해**: The act of interfering and hindering work from being done properly. **배경**: A device installed at the back of a stage in a performance. **배고프다**: Being badly off and poor. **배구**: A game in which there is a net in the middle of a rectangular court and players hit the ball with their hands while keeping the ball from hitting ground in an attempt to pass it to the opponent's side of the net. **배꼽**: The mark in the middle of the abdomen where the umbilical cord was attached. **배낭**: A bag for putting in objects, made to carry on one's shoulders. **배낭여행**: A form of low-cost, independent travel with only a backpack. **배다**: For a feeling, thought, etc., to be felt deeply or remain for a long time. **배려**: An act of being considerate about someone, caring for or helping him/her. **배부르다**: Wanting nothing because one is well off. **배송**: The act of sending supplies to a specific place. **배우자**: A member of a married couple in relation to the other. **배웅**: The act of going along with a person who is leaving the area to send him/her off. **배치**: The act of placing persons, objects, etc., in a certain order or spacing. **배터리**: A device that provides electricity necessary for cars, cellular phones, clocks, etc. **배편**: The business of using a ship as a means of transportation. **백**: A bag or pouch for carrying a person's belongings. **뱃속**: (slang) The mind. **뱉다**: (figurative) To speak carelessly. **버섯**: A plant that grows on shaded, damp ground or rotten trees, usually looks like an umbrella and is used as an ingredient for dishes. **버터**: A yellowish fatty substance made from milk by churning, for spreading on bread or cooking. **버튼**: A device on an electrical equipment, which is operated by pressing it with a finger. **버티다**: Not give up one's own opinion. **번갈다**: To deal with one person or one thing at a time for a short while, when there are two or more. **번개**: (figurative) A person who is very quick and deft in action. **번거롭다**: Being bothered and annoyed by something. **번역**: The act of translating speech or writing into a foreign language. **번지**: A number given to each area divided into certain standards. **번호표**: Paper with a number written on it. **번화하다**: Splendid and active in commercial activities. **벌**: A flying insect with a venomous sting at the end of its body, which gathers nectar and pollen from flowers and stores them. **벌**: A suffering given for any crime or wrongdoing. **벌금**: A monetary penalty imposed on a person who commits a crime. **벌떡**: A word describing one lying or leaning backward suddenly. **벌레**: (figurative) A person who works very hard tirelessly to do something. **벌리다**: To spread out or open something that is closed. **벌어지다**: For a relationship between people to become distant or uncomfortable. **벌어지다**: For a situation or appearance of something occurring to be seen in one's eyes. **벌이다**: To start a war, fight, etc. **범위**: A certain limited domain, or the limit of a certain power's reach. **범인**: A person who broke the law and committed a crime. **범죄**: An act of committing a crime, breaking the law. **법**: A set of regulations and rules that the state institutes for all citizens to comply with. **법률**: Orders or rules made by the state, which all the people must comply with. **법원**: A national institution that judges legal cases. **법적**: Being based on the law. **법적**: Being based on the law. **법칙**: A principle believed to be a universal rule to explaining a certain phenomenon. **벗기다**: (figurative) To take someone's property, goods, etc., by force. **벗어나다**: To become disliked by others. **베개**: An object on which one's head is rested when asleep or lying. **베란다**: The protruding space with a roof and no walls, in a western housing unit, such as an apartment, **베풀다**: To help someone and have him/her benefit from it. **벤치**: A place where players and their coach sit in a sports game. **벨**: A device making a sound by using electricity. **벨트**: A strip-shaped device hung on two wheels to deliver power. **벼**: The agricultural plant that produces rice as a fruit, or such a fruit. **벽시계**: A clock that is hung on the wall or a pillar. **벽지**: Wall covering made of paper which is attached to the wall with glue **변경**: The act of changing something in a different or new way. **변덕스럽다**: Words, behavior, feelings, etc., often changing capriciously. **변동**: A situation or state changing into a different situation or state. **변명**: The act of explaining reasons to someone for the errors or mistakes one has made in order to seek his/her understanding or forgiveness. **변비**: A symptom in which feces are not excreted well as they have become hard after remaining in the large intestine too long. **변화**: A state in which the shape, condition, property, etc., of something have been altered. **별**: Being special or unusual far from being ordinary or common. **별다르다**: Especially different from others. **별도**: Something that has been added to or prepared separately from the original one. **별말씀**: (polite form) Nonsensical remark that is unexpected or groundless. **별명**: A name given to someone, which shows his/her characteristics unlike his/her real name. **별일**: A variety of affairs. **병들다**: To become mentally unhealthy and unsound. **병실**: A room where a hospitalized patient stays. **보고**: A document or article that provides the details or results of research or a survey. **보고서**: A document or article that provides the details or results of research or a survey. **보관**: The state of having a thing in one's keeping. **보급**: The process of spreading something widely so that it reaches many places and people can enjoy it. **보기**: A thing that is shown as a representative in order to explain or prove something. **보너스**: Extra money that one receives beyond one's regular pay, according to one's achievement or contribution. **보도**: The act of informing the public of new information through mass media such as broadcasting or a newspaper, or such new information. **보람**: The value or meaning of something, which makes one think highly of it. **보름**: A period of fifteen days. **보름달**: full moon: The round moon that comes up on the fifteenth night of a lunar month. **보리**: A grain that has a line in the middle and is usually mixed with rice when it is boiled. **보리차**: barley tea: Tea made by boiling roasted barley. **보물**: A cultural asset designated by the government. **보살피다**: To pay attention to a certain project or situation and look over its progress. **보상**: The act of paying back a matter, efforts, or a favor. **보석**: A rare and expensive stone that is used to make accessories like a necklace or ring as it is hard, has a beautiful color, and sparkles. **보수**: Money or things that a person gets in return for his/her work or effort. **보안**: The act of preserving and maintaining safety so that there is no risk or problem of information leakage. **보완**: The act of making up for the deficiency of something to make it perfect. **보장**: The act of assuring someone that there will not be a problem, or protecting someone so that he/she will not meet a problem. **보전**: The act of protecting and maintaining something so that it does not change. **보조**: The act of assisting the main thing, or such a person. **보존**: The act of protecting an important thing and keeping it as it is. **보충**: The act of filling up a deficiency. **보행자**: A person who walks in a street. **보험**: A system of paying and saving a fixed amount of money during a certain period of time to be financially compensated for disaster or diseases that might occur in the future. **보호**: The act of protecting and caring for something or someone so that it or he/she is not put in a dangerous or difficult situation. **복**: (figurative) A state of having a great deal of something or doing it many times. **복도**: A passage in a building, into which the doors of rooms open. **복사**: On a computer, the act of transfering an exact copy of a file to another place. **복사기**: A machine used to copy documents, photos, etc. **복수**: The act of taking action against someone who harmed one or one's family or friends; the act of getting revenge. **복숭아**: A round summer fruit that has a pink or white color, sweet taste, and a large stone in the middle. **복용**: The act of taking medicine. **복통**: A feeling of great mortification and frustration, or such a state of mind. **볶음**: A word usually attached to another noun, meaning 'stir-fried food.' **본능**: The uncontrollable emotion or impulse that a living thing is born with. **본래**: The beginning of something that has been passed down; the beginning of something before it has been changed. **본부**: The central group or central office of an organization. **본인**: A person who is directly related to a matter. **본인**: A word used by a speaker when he/she refers to himself/herself in an official setting. **본질**: The original characteristic of something, which determines its identity. **볼**: The flesh of either of the two parts of the face that are between the ear and mouth. **볼거리**: Something interesting to see. **볼링**: An indoor sport in which a player rolls a large, heavy ball down a twenty-meter lane to knock down ten pins. **볼일**: (euphemism) The act of discharging feces or urinating. **봉사**: The act of working dedicatedly for others without considering one's own interests. **봉지**: The unit for counting the number of bags holding small things or powder. **뵈다**: To meet someone older or with a higher position than oneself. **부**: One of the small units into which an organization is divided by duty. **부**: The entire wealth of a country or society such as capital, products, resources, etc. **부**: A bound noun that serves as a unit for counting the number of newspapers, books, or documents. **부근**: An area near a certain place. **부끄러움**: The feeling or state of mind of being shy. **부끄러워하다**: To feel shame for something. **부담**: Something that prevents the body from functioning normally. **부담스럽다**: A matter or situation being difficult to handle. **부대**: A party that acts together for the same purpose. **부동산**: An agent for selling or buying, or renting land or houses, etc. **부딪치다**: To meet someone involved in a certain affair in order to solve a problem. **부딪히다**: To come to experience or encounter an unexpected incident or situation. **부러워하다**: To want to have something or want to be like someone after seeing it or him/her. **부러지다**: To speak or behave clearly and exactly. **부리다**: To often show or reveal an undesirable act or personality. **부모**: Father and mother. **부문**: A particular part or area that is set apart and separated from a certain field. **부분적**: A state of having a relationship with only one part of something. **부분적**: Being related only to a part of something. **부상**: A state of having an injury to the body. **부서**: One of the business units into which a company, institution or organization is divided based on the characteristics of the business. **부서지다**: For one's hope or expectation to be destroyed. **부수다**: To break something or put it out of order. **부위**: An area around a certain part of the body. **부인**: A married woman. **부자**: A father and his son. **부작용**: An unexpected, negative effect that occurs when taking medicine. **부잣집**: A family that has enough property to be well off. **부정**: Irregularity; an irregular act. **부정**: The act of concluding that something is not true or right; the act of objecting to something because it is not right. **부정적**: The state of not being desirable. **부정적**: Not desirable. **부정확**: A state of being incorrect or inaccurate. **부족**: A regional community consisting of people who have the same ancestor, language, religion, etc. **부주의**: A state of paying little attention to something and thus being not careful. **부지런히**: Quickly, in a hurry. **부채**: An object that creates a current of air when it is waved. **부처**: A statue or image of Buddha. **부츠**: A high-neck shoe that covers the ankle, the calf, or the knee. **부치다**: To spread the dough, an egg, etc., out and cook it in the greased frying pan. **부친**: A deferential way of addressing or referring to one's own or another person's father. **부품**: Something that comprises a part of the whole of a machine, etc. **북**: One of the four cardinal directions, namely north, south, east, and west, which is the direction indicated by the needle of the compass. **북미**: The northern part of America. **북부**: The northern part of an area. **분노**: A state of being very angry. **분단**: Something being divided into more than two parts. **분량**: The amount or number of things. **분류**: The process of dividing things into groups. **분리**: A state of being divided and separated; the act of dividing and separating things. **분명**: Clearly and surely. **분명히**: (a fact being confirmed) Certainly and accurately. **분석**: The process of observing a phenomenon or thing by dividing it into several elements or properties in order to understand it more deeply. **분수**: A limit that a person should not go beyond as a human being. **분수**: A structure installed usually in the middle of a park or square, which spurts water through small holes; water spurted in the structure. **분실**: The act of losing something. **분실물**: A lost item. **분야**: One of the parts or areas into which social activities are divided by a certain standard. **분포**: A state of being dispersed over a certain region. **분필**: A stick-shaped writing instrument which is used to write on the blackboard. **불가**: The state of not being possible. **불가능**: The state of being unable to do or become something. **불가피하다**: Impossible to avoid. **불교**: A religion created by Sakyamuni in India, which is founded on the ideal of relieving oneself of all pains in this world to become a Buddha. **불구하다**: To not be bothered with something. **불규칙**: A state of deviating from a rule or having no rules. **불균형**: The state of being lopsided and unequal. **불꽃**: The very small piece of burning material that is produced when two stones or pieces of metal are struck against each other. **불러일으키다**: To cause a certain state of mind, act, state, or incident to occur. **불리**: A condition, position, etc., being not advantageous. **불리다**: To make something bigger or grow in amount. **불만**: The feeling of being unsatisfied. **불만족**: The feeling of being unsatisfied. **불만족스럽다**: Feeling unpleased because something is unsatisfactory. **불법**: The state of being against the law. **불빛**: A ray emitted from a light that is turned on. **불어**: The language spoken mainly by the French people. **불어오다**: For a trend, fashion, etc., to begin to affect people. **불완전**: A state of being imperfect or incomplete. **불이익**: A state of being a loss without being beneficial to someone. **불충분**: A state of not being satisfactorily sufficient, short of something. **불친절**: An attitude of not being gentle and nice to a person. **불쾌**: A state of feeling bad due to dissatisfaction with a certain matter. **불평**: A state of being dissatisfied with a certain work or person; or a remark of such a dissatisfaction. **불평등**: A state of being unequal due to discrimination. **불필요**: A state of being not necessary. **불행**: Lack of luck, or experiencing undesirable events. **불확실**: A state of not being certain. **붐비다**: To be very congested as a lot of people, cars, etc., gather in one place. **붓다**: (slang) To be full of discontent or be angry. **붓다**: To deposit money in a bank or the like, every certain period of time. **붙들다**: To stick to something. **붙잡다**: To catch hold of a good opportunity or person without losing it or him/her. **붙잡히다**: To be stopped so as not to be able to depart or pass thorugh . **뷔페**: A restaurant that allows its customers to help themselves from a wide selection of dishes set on the table. **비결**: An individual's secret method. **비교적**: An act of comparing one thing with another, and examining their similarities and differences. **비교적**: Comparing something with another to observe similarities and differences. **비교적**: Quite, more than a certain level or more than something ordinary. **비극**: A piece of theater that has a sad or miserable ending. **비기다**: For two persons or teams to end a game in a draw. **비난**: An act of speaking unfavorably about others' mistakes or flaws. **비닐**: A durable substance that is non-flammable, airtight, and water-proof, usually used for making a packing material. **비로소**: In such a way that a matter or phenomenon is to be realized only after something else happens. **비록**: Even if things are like that. **비롯되다**: For something to begin for the first time. **비롯하다**: To begin with something or someone in the front among many and include the others. **비만**: A state of being fat as a result of weight gain. **비명**: A sound uttered when one is greatly frightened or in extreme pain. **비밀번호**: A series of numbers or phrases unknown to others that a person creates to secure his/her bank account, computer, etc. **비바람**: A strong wind blowing along with a heavy rain. **비법**: A special way of doing something, unknown to others. **비비다**: To depend on something or someone. **비상**: An urgent occasion that one has not thought of, or an urgent order issued to cope with such an occasion. **비상구**: An exit to allow people to go quickly outside when an unexpected accident happens. **비상하다**: One's ability being excellent, exceeding the norm. **비용**: A sum of money spent in doing a certain work. **비우다**: To rid oneself of greed or obsession. **비웃다**: To laugh at someone displeasingly for doing an absurd or ridiculous act. **비유**: An act of explaining one thing effectively by comparing it with another thing that shares similarities, or such a method of explanation. **비율**: A percentage of a certain value in relation to the figure or amount that serves as a standard. **비자**: A document that authorizes the entry and departure of a foreigner. **비중**: A level of importance of one thing in comparison with another. **비추다**: To think about something by comparing it with or relating it to another thing. **비치다**: To say something in order to feel someone out and suggest something. **비키다**: To move to another place in order not to interfere with something. **비타민**: A nutrient essential for animals' growth although it is not produced inside the body. **비틀거리다**: To walk without keeping one's balance, as if one is about to fall down. **비판**: An act of examining something closely and making a judgment between right and wrong, or pointing out what is wrong. **비판적**: An attitude of examining something closely and making a judgment between right and wrong, or pointing out the wrong. **비판적**: Examining something closely and making a judgment between right and wrong, or pointing out what is wrong. **비하다**: To be lower in degree in comparison to something. **비행**: An act of flying through the sky or flying about in the air. **비행장**: A place equipped with a variety of facilities to enable planes to take off, land, and stay. **빈자리**: A position in a group or organization left vacant after the previous person holding that position has left. **빌다**: To eagerly ask for forgiveness for one's mistake. **빗**: An implement used for arranging and straightening the hair. **빗다**: To arrange hair, fur, etc., with a comb, hand, etc. **빗물**: A rain or water formed from rain. **빗방울**: A drop of water that falls from the sky as rain. **빚**: The psychological burden one feels because someone provided help, or a favor that must be repaid. **빚다**: For bring about a certain situation or result. **빛**: (after certain nouns) The word that means 'color.' **빛깔**: An object's color that appears when exposed to light. **빛나다**: For one's eyes to look clear. **빠뜨리다**: To not get something that is necessary. **빠져나가다**: To go outside the limited environment or boundary. **빠져나오다**: To come outside the limited environment or boundary. **빠지다**: To fall behind others. **빠짐없이**: All without exception. **빨강**: A color like a ripe red pepper or blood. **빨개지다**: For a color to become red. **빨다**: To melt something in one's mouth or lick it. **빼놓다**: To make someone lose his/her concentration, energy, etc. **빼앗기다**: For one's fidelity or virginity, etc., to be roughly used or treated with contempt. **빼앗다**: To roughly use a person's fidelity or virginity, etc., and treat him/her with contempt. **뺏다**: To violate and run roughshod over someone's chastity, virginal purity, etc. **뺨**: A fleshy part of either side of the face below the eyes. **뻗다**: (slang) To die or be completely drained of energy and collapse. **뼈**: (figurative) An intention or underlying thought. **뽀뽀**: An act of letting one's lips touch a part of the body, or such contact. **뽑히다**: To be distinguished and chosen among many things. **뿌리**: (figurative) The foundation or basis of a thing or phenomenon. **뿌리다**: To cause something to happen. **뿌리치다**: To reject someone's suggestion strongly. **삐다**: For a joint of a part of one's body to be twisted or bent strongly and dislocated. **사건**: A matter that is worthy of interest or attention. **사고방식**: A way or an attitude, how one thinks about a certain matter. **사과**: An act of admitting one's own mistakes and begging for forgiveness. **사교적**: A knack for easily associating with and mixing with many people. **사교적**: Easily associating with and mixing with many people. **사기**: An act of deceiving others in the pursuit of one's own interest. **사나이**: A vigorous and virile male at the peak of his manhood. **사내**: A man or one's husband. **사냥**: The act of a strong animal catching a weaker animal to eat. **사들이다**: To buy something in a large number and make it one's own. **사라지다**: For the life of someone to cease. **사랑스럽다**: So cute as to evoke a feeling of affection. **사례**: An instance of previous occurrence. **사로잡다**: To make one's mind or thought occupied by one thing. **사립**: A state in which an individual establishes and manages an institution for the public benefit with his/her private fund. **사막**: A land covered with sand, where animals and plants can rarely live due to an extremely small amount of rainfall. **사망**: A state in which a person dies. **사무**: A job that consists of primarily doing paperwork, etc., usually sitting at a desk. **사무소**: A place where public organizations, companies, individuals, etc. do their business. **사무직**: A position of working at an office, such as doing paperwork at a desk, etc. **사물**: All kinds of things with a certain shape and property so as to allow one to see or touch. **사방**: All the places around. **사상**: A period since history began being recorded. **사생활**: A person's personal, everyday life. **사설**: A piece of writing that contains the author's argument or opinion, published in a newspaper or magazine, **사소하다**: Too small or little to be considered significant. **사업가**: A person who runs a business professionally. **사업자**: A person who runs a business professionally. **사연**: Contents of a letter or words. **사용법**: A certain way of using something. **사용자**: A person who makes a worker do something and pays him/her a wage in return. **사우나**: A place for taking a hot steam bath that causes the bather to perspire a lot. **사위**: The husband of one's daughter. **사이좋다**: Intimate with each other without having quarrels. **사이트**: A place where information is stored so as to allow users to look for them by accessing the Internet. **사인**: An act of communicating one's thoughts using a body gesture or moving ones eyes, or any such movement. **사자**: A large, ferocius animal whose males have a mane around its face and neck. **사적**: A state of relating to an individual. **사적**: Relating to an individual. **사전**: A time before a certain thing happens, or before one starts doing something. **사정**: An act of explaining the situation of something to someone and asking for his/her help. **사진관**: A place for taking a photograph professionally, equipped with necessary facilities. **사진첩**: A book for preserving a collection of photographs by attaching them to blank pages or inserting them into the pockets on each page. **사촌**: A child of one's parent's sibling; one's relation with that child. **사춘기**: A period from age 12 to 18, when a child matures physically and mentally to become a grown-up. **사태**: A progress or unfolding of a certain event, or a state of things that happened. **사투리**: A type of language different from a standard language and used only in some local provinces. **사표**: A letter of showing a person's intention to quit his/her job or position at work, etc. **사항**: An item or content that constitutes a certain matter or fact. **사회**: All the groups of people who live communally such as a family, village, company, country, etc. **사회생활**: A life of community involving a variety of interpersonal relationships as a member of a society. **사회자**: A person who presides over a gathering, meeting, ceremony, etc. **사회적**: A state of relating to a society or having a social nature. **사회적**: Relating to a society or having a social nature. **삭제**: An act of removing or erasing. **산길**: A path that is made throughout a mountain. **산꼭대기**: A top of a mountain. **산불**: A fire that breaks out on a mountain. **산속**: A place deep inside a mountain. **산업**: An activity of creating goods, services, etc. such as agriculture, manufacturing, forestry, fishery, mining, service industry, etc. **살리다**: To make words, a remark, or a certain phenomenon, etc., be effective. **살림**: Various objects used in a household. **살아가다**: To continue to live by enduring a kind of life, period, etc. **살아나다**: For a forgotten memory, emotion, etc., to come back to mind. **살아남다**: To survive in a certain area without falling behind. **살아오다**: To endure and live a certain kind of life, era, etc. **살인**: The act of killing a person. **살짝**: Quietly so that others do not know. **살찌다**: (figurative) To become stronger or richer. **살펴보다**: To calculate something thoroughly. **살피다**: To calculate something thoroughly. **삶**: One's life. **삶다**: (figurative) For something to be hot because the weather is very hot and humid. **삼다**: To suppose that something is another thing. **삼키다**: To repress one's emotion or expression. **상**: The first in a class, level, order, etc. **상**: A word usually attached to another noun, indicating 'table setting.' **상가**: A building densely populated by shops. **상관**: An act of meddling with someone's business. **상관없다**: To be fine without a problem or worry. **상관없이**: With no problem or worry. **상금**: A sum of money given as a reward for making achievements, winning the championship, etc. **상담**: An act of talking to one another to solve a certain problem. **상담실**: An office arranged to allow people to talk to one another to solve a certain problem. **상담원**: A person whose job it is to listen to someone's matter and give him/her advice. **상당하다**: Fairly large in amount. **상당히**: Quite a lot. **상대**: An act of being placed together and compared. **상대방**: A person partnered with another in work or conversation. **상대적**: A state of opposing one another or being considered compared with one another. **상대적**: Opposing one another or being compared with one another. **상대편**: A party which one's counterpart belongs to. **상류**: A class that holds a higher place in social status, standard of living, income, education, etc. **상반기**: The first half of the year or a certain period when divided into two. **상사**: A person whose title is higher than oneself at a workplace. **상상**: An act of picturing something in mind that does not exist or one has never experienced. **상상력**: An ability to come up with something that does not exist or one has never experienced. **상승**: An act of going up. **상식**: An array of knowledge including a sense of judgment, which people are normally supposed to learn about. **상업**: An economic activity that involves selling and buying things for the purpose of gaining profit. **상영**: The act of playing a movie on a screen in a place such as a movie theater, etc., for an audience. **상점**: A store that sells goods. **상징**: The act of expressing an abstract matter or concept as a concrete thing, or a concrete thing expressed such a way. **상쾌하다**: Feeling cool and fresh. **상태**: The look or situation of an object or phenomenon. **상하**: The first and second volumes of a book of two volumes. **상하다**: To feel bad or uncomfortable because one has experienced something unpleasant. **상황**: The stiuation or state of how something is proceeding. **새**: The time to do something. **새기다**: To write or print. **새끼**: (insult) A certain person. **새다**: To not go to one's destination but go somewhere else. **새다**: For a day to begin. **새로이**: Again, freshly. **새삼**: In a sudden manner, by doing something one had not done before. **새엄마**: (children's term) A word used to refer to or address one's stepmother. **새우**: A small crustacean with a bent back, long whiskers and many legs that lives in the water. **새우다**: To be up all night without sleeping. **새집**: A house that one has moved into. **색다르다**: Having a unique feature unlike something common. **샌들**: Shoes with a sole made of wood, leather, plastic, etc., which is held to one's feet by straps passing over the instep or around the ankle. **생겨나다**: For something that did not exist to emerge. **생기**: A lively, healthy energy. **생김새**: The appearance of something. **생년월일**: The year, month and day of birth. **생략**: The act of reducing or removing a part of a whole to make it short or simple. **생머리**: Straight hair that has not been permed. **생명**: (figurative) The core or essence of something. **생방송**: A broadcast made at the same time as it is being produced on site or in the studio, without recording in advance. **생산**: An act of making the objects needed everyday life. **생생하다**: One's memory or thought being so clear that one feels like one is seeing it now. **생존**: The state of being alive, or surviving. **생활비**: The money necessary for living. **생활용품**: Basic necessities for life. **샴푸**: An act of washing one's hair. **서**: One of the four cardinal points, namely, north, south, east and west; the direction where the sun sets. **서넛**: A number that is about three or four. **서늘하다**: Feeling a little cold because one is suddenly frightened or horrified. **서럽다**: To be sad and depressed. **서명**: The act of writing one's name to indicate consent to certain content, or the name itself. **서부**: The western part of a region. **서서히**: Slowly and little by little. **서양인**: A person from the West. **서운하다**: Not satisfied with something because it did not go according to one's expectation. **서적**: Writing, pictures, etc., that are printed and bounded. **서투르다**: Not being accustomed to or not good at something. **서툴다**: Not being accustomed to or not good at something. **석유**: Black oil that sprouts naturally from the ground and is used to make energy by burning; it is usually used as fuel of cars or factories. **섞이다**: For something to be said or done while something else is said or done. **선**: A word that means a beam of light. **선거**: The act of choosing a representative or executive of an organization or group through a vote. **선글라스**: Colored glasses worn to protect one's eyes from strong sunlight or dress oneself up. **선약**: The act of making an earlier appointment, or an appointment made earlier. **선전**: The act of widely spreading a certain idea, argument, advantages of an object, etc., by telling other people. **선정**: The act of choosing one appropriate thing among many. **선진**: The state of being ahead in the state or level of development of a certain field. **선진국**: A country that is ahead of others in its development of politics, economics, culture, etc. **선호**: The act or state of especially liking one thing among many. **설**: A generic term referring to New Year's Day on January 1 of the lunar calendar and that of the solar calendar. **설득**: The act of explaining or persuading so that a person would understand or do as asked. **설레다**: For one's heart not to be calm but to flutter because one is excited. **설립**: The act of newly setting up an organization, institution, etc. **설마**: Probably not, but it is possible **설명서**: An explanatory writing that describes the content, reasons, directions, etc., of a task or object. **설문**: The act of questioning people in order to research into a certain fact, or such questions. **설문지**: A document containing questions for the purpose of conducting a research or an investigation. **설사**: The state of having liquid bowel movements due to a disturbance in one's intestines' ability to digest food, or such stools. **설정**: The act of deciding on a new thing. **설치**: The act of making an institution, facility, etc., or placing it in the right spot for appropriate use. **섭씨**: A unit of measuring the temperature by defining the freezing point of water at 0 degrees and the boiling point at 100 degrees and dividing the intervals by 100. **성공적**: Achieving something one aimed at. **성공적**: Relating to a nation or society. **성과**: The result of having achieved something. **성당**: A sanctified building, such as a church or cathedral, in which Catholic rituals are held. **성립**: Completion of a task or establishment of a relationship **성명**: One's given name and last name. **성별**: The distinction between man and woman, or male and female. **성숙**: A state in which conditions or requirements have been fully prepared so that a certain social phenomenon can develop. **성실**: A sincere, genuine attitude or behavior. **성인**: A person who is an adult. **성장**: The state of the size, power, etc., of an object becoming bigger gradually. **성적표**: A card with the results of tests, etc., that evaluate what the students have studied. **성질**: A distinctive characteristic of an object or phenomenon. **세계적**: Affecting the entire world in size, influence, etc., or being the best in the world. **세계적**: Affecting the entire world in size, influence, etc., or being the best in the world. **세계화**: The act of understanding many countries and advancing globally, or making something that way. **세금**: A levy imposed by a nation or local government on its people to finance necessary expenditures. **세기**: A unit of counting years by a hundred. **세다**: To recite numbers. **세대**: The family line continuing from parents and children through to grandchildren. **세대**: A unit for counting each group of people living together in a house. **세력**: A specific group that has a certain property or force. **세련되다**: One's appearance, personality, etc., being graceful and dignified. **세로**: The direction from the top to bottom, or the length. **세로**: In the direction from the top to bottom, or long downward. **세모**: A plane figure formed by three lines. **세미나**: A meeting of a group of experts in one field for examination of a specific subject. **세월**: A certain period or time. **세일**: The act of selling something cheaper than the original price. **세제**: A substance used to wash dirt off when doing the laundry, washing dishes, cleaning, etc. **세차**: The act of cleaning the inside of a car or washing off the dust, dirt, etc., on the outside. **세탁물**: Clothes, blankets, etc., that have been washed. **세트**: One in a series of games that constitute a specific match in tennis, volleyball, table tennis, etc. **센티**: A length unit. **셔츠**: A western upper garment worn inside a suit or as an outer clothing. **소감**: The thoughts or feelings on something. **소개팅**: A meeting of a man and a woman one-on-one through an intermediary's introduction. **소규모**: Small size or range. **소극장**: A small-sized theater. **소극적**: Lacking the will to do something by oneself and being inactive. **소극적**: Lacking the will to do something by oneself and being inactive. **소금물**: Very salty water. **소나기**: (figurative) A continuous, sudden outpouring of something. **소나무**: A tree with long, sharp, needle-like leaves that are always green. **소녀**: A young girl that has not become an adult yet. **소년**: A young boy that has not become an adult yet. **소독**: The act of destroying germs with chemicals, heat, etc., in order to prevent one's getting sick. **소독약**: Medicine used to kill or weaken germs that are harmful to people. **소득**: Money paid in return for doing a certain task during a certain period. **소리치다**: To shout loudly. **소매**: A part of the upper garment that covers the two arms. **소문**: News or stories which circulate among people. **소문나다**: For words, a fact, etc., to spread widely among people. **소방관**: A civil servant who is responsible for fighting or putting out fires. **소방서**: An institution that fights or puts out fires. **소방차**: A vehicle with the equipment necessary for fighting or putting out fires. **소변**: (refined) A person's urine. **소비**: The act of using up money, objects, time, efforts, strength, etc. **소비자**: A person who pays money to buy products, services, etc. **소설가**: A person who writes novels professionally. **소설책**: A book containing a novel. **소수**: A small number. **소스**: Liquid put in food that adds taste, smell and shape. **소시지**: A type of food made by stuffing minced, seasoned meat into a pig's intestine or other long, thin sack. **소아과**: A field of medical science that treats diseases of children, or the department of the hospital that is in charge of the field. **소요**: The state of being necessary or required. **소용**: A benefit or use. **소용없다**: Being of no use or unprofitable. **소원**: Hope for something to come true, or the thing that one is hoping for. **소유**: The state of holding as one's own, or the thing that one owns. **소음**: An unpleasant, loud sound. **소재**: Background materials that constitute the content of a text. **소중히**: Very preciously. **소지품**: One's belongings. **소형**: The one that is small in size or scale among objects of the same kind. **소홀하다**: Lacking care or caution about something because one does not think it is important. **소화**: (figurative) The ability of properly handling the transactions of products, bonds, etc., in a market, company, etc. **속눈썹**: Hair that grows from the edges of the eyelids. **속다**: To mistake something for another thing. **속담**: A short phrase with a lesson that descends from the people of the old times. **속마음**: One's real intentions that do not show. **속상하다**: Feeling discomfort and anguish because things do not go one's way. **속이다**: To lie about something to another person. **속하다**: To be related to something and be within a certain range. **손가방**: A small bag to carry in one's hand. **손길**: The movement of the hand. **손끝**: The tip of a finger. **손등**: The outside part of the hand; the opposite side of the palm. **손목**: The part that connects the hand and the arm. **손목시계**: A small watch made to wear on the wrist. **손발**: (figurative) A person that one can use like his/her hands and feet. **손뼉**: The entire palm of the hand. **손쉽다**: Not difficult to deal with or handle. **손자**: The son of one's son or daughter. **손잡다**: To work together by combining efforts. **손잡이**: The part attached to an object that enables a person to hold it easily. **손질**: An act of retouching and trimming something which had been completed already. **손톱**: The hard, thin part that is at the end of a finger. **손해**: The sate of doing harm. **솔직하다**: Not lying or manipulating. **솔직히**: Without lying or manipulating. **솜씨**: A tactic or an ability to cope with a certain work. **솟다**: For a certain feeling, energy, etc., to grow stronger. **송별회**: A gathering to comfort people who are saddened by an upcoming separation, and wishing the people who are leaving good luck. **송아지**: A young cow. **송이**: The unit for counting the number of things such as flowers or fruits, etc., grouped together. **쇠**: All kinds of iron extracted from minerals. **쇠고기**: Meat from cow, bull or ox. **쇼**: (figurative) The act of pretending to do something to deceive others. **쇼핑센터**: A place where stores that sell a variety of goods are concentrated. **수**: The third day of a week that starts from Monday. **수년**: Several years that do not exceed ten years. **수다**: The act of saying a lot without purpose, or such words. **수단**: One's trick or skill for doing a certain task. **수도**: A device that controls the flow of tap water by turning it on and off. **수도**: The city where a country's central government is located. **수도권**: The capital and the area around the capital. **수도꼭지**: A device that controls the flow of tap water by turning it on and off. **수돗물**: Water from water supply. **수동적**: Moving when affected by others, not taking action by oneself. **수동적**: Acted upon not by oneself but by an external force. **수량**: The number and quantity of something. **수리**: The act of fixing a broken thing. **수리비**: The cost of fixing a broken thing. **수만**: The number that is the product of several times ten thousand. **수만**: The number that is the product of several times ten thousand. **수많다**: Very large in number. **수면**: The act of sleeping. **수면제**: Medicine that makes one fall asleep. **수명**: The length of time during which a thing or facility, etc., can function properly. **수백**: The number that is the product of several times a hundred. **수백**: The number that is the product of several times a hundred. **수사**: Usually an investigation by the police or prosecution to find a criminal or suspect and arrest him/her. **수상**: The highest position in the cabinet of a parliamentary government. **수선**: The act of fixing an old or broken thing so that it can be used again. **수속**: A procedure or process that is to be gone through before starting or handling a matter. **수수께끼**: A state in which a certain object or phenomenon is too complicated and puzzling to understand fully. **수수료**: A fee charged by the government, public institution, etc., for the price of doing something for a person. **수시로**: Often, at any time. **수십**: The number that is the product of several times ten. **수십**: The number that is the product of several times ten. **수없이**: In such a manner that something is too numerous to be counted. **수요**: A person's desire to buy a product. **수용**: The act of accepting something. **수입**: Money that an individual, nation, or organization earns. **수입**: The act or process of learning and bringing in an idea, culture, custom, etc., from another country. **수입품**: Goods that are purchased from foreign countries. **수정**: The act of correcting or refining a wrong thing so that it becomes right. **수준**: The standard generally considered as the average. **수집**: The act of finding objects, materials, etc., and collecting them as a hobby or research. **수천**: The number that is the product of several times thousand. **수천**: The number that is the product of several times thousand. **수출**: The act of selling a domestic product or technology to a foreign country. **수표**: A certificate used like money with which the bank gives the amount of money written on it. **수학**: An academic field on numbers and quantities such as counting numbers, measuring space, etc. **수행**: The act of doing something as one has thought or planned. **숙녀**: (dignifying) An adult female. **숙박**: The act or state of sleeping and staying at an inn, hotel, etc. **숙박비**: The fee charged for sleeping and staying at a hotel or inn. **숙소**: A place that is not one's house where one stays temporarily, **숙이다**: To weaken an energy or force. **순간**: The exact time when something happens or an action is done. **순간적**: Existing for only a short while. **순간적**: Lasting for a very short period. **순수하다**: Not having selfish desires or evil thoughts. **순식간**: A very short moment in which one can blink once or take one breath. **순위**: A position or status that shows the order of people or things according to certain standards. **순진**: The quality of being naïve because of lack of experience of life or worldliness. **순하다**: Easy, not difficult. **술병**: A bottle that holds liquor. **술자리**: A gathering in which people drink. **술잔**: Several glasses of a liquid for drinking. **숨**: A fresh and stiff state or the texture of vegetables like napa cabbage. **숨기다**: To conceal a fact or matter from another person so that he/she will not know it. **숨다**: For something inside not to be revealed to the outside. **숨소리**: The sound of one's breathing. **숨지다**: To stop breathing and die. **숲**: A place that is full of trees and grasses. **쉬다**: For one's voice to be husky and hoarse because one's throat is sore. **쉿**: A word mimicking the sound made urgently or firmly when telling a person to stop making loud noises and be quiet. **슈퍼**: A big store that is equipped with food, daily necessities, etc., and sells them. **스님**: (polite form) A Buddhist monk. **스위치**: A device that connects and disconnects an electric circuit. **스치다**: For one's eyes to sweep over someone or something quickly. **스커트**: A western style skirt. **스케줄**: A plan set up in a detailed way according to time sequence, or such a planning chart. **스타일**: A particular format or feature found in literature or art. **스타킹**: Thin, stretchy, long leggings for females. **스튜디오**: A professional space for taking a photo or painting a picture. **슬리퍼**: A shoe made without the part that touches the heel, so that it covers only the front part of the foot. **슬쩍**: Carelessly and quickly. **습기**: The state or quality of being damp due to moisture. **습도**: The level of moisture in the air. **습하다**: Clammy with much moisture, not dry. **승객**: A customer that rides on a car, train, airplane, ship, etc. **승낙**: The act of accepting another's request. **승리**: A victory in a war, game, etc. **승무원**: A person who is responsible for matters related to the service or passengers of an airplane, train, ship, etc. **승용차**: A car for people to drive. **승진**: The act of moving up to a higher position at one's workplace. **승차**: The act of getting in a vehicle. **승차권**: A ticket purchased in order to get in a vehicle. **승패**: Winning or losing. **시**: A literary work that expresses the writer's thoughts and feelings in a rhythmical format. **시각**: A very short time. **시각**: The point of view of understanding or judging something. **시금치**: A vegetable with thick, red roots and uneven-shaped leaves that is mainly seasoned or boiled in soup. **시기**: A period in which an event or phenomenon is in progress. **시내버스**: A bus that operates a fixed route within a city. **시달리다**: To be troubled with harassment or sufferings. **시대**: The current age; the age that is currently being discussed. **시댁**: (polite form) The house that one's husband's parents or one's husband's family live in. **시도**: The act of planning or acting in order to achieve something. **시들다**: To lose one's liveliness due to the weakening of one's physical strength or spirits. **시디**: A circular medium for saving information such as music, images, etc., in digital format. **시력**: The ability of the eyes to see objects. **시리즈**: A drama, book, etc., that maintains the same format and is a continuing story. **시멘트**: A powder made by mixing limestone, mud, plaster, etc., used to attach objects in civil engineering, architecture, etc. **시부모**: The father and mother of one's husband. **시선**: People's attention or interest. **시설**: The act of constructing a building or making a tool, machine, device, etc., for a certain purpose, or such a building or objects like a tool, machine, device, etc. **시스템**: Interrelated elements assembled according to a rule, to implement a certain function in a computer. **시아버지**: The father of one's husband. **시야**: The extent to which one can think of or understanding a certain object or phenomenon. **시외**: The outside of the city. **시외버스**: A bus that runs from the inside to the outside of the city. **시인**: A person who writes poems professionally. **시일**: A fixed time or date. **시장**: The highest executive that governs a city. **시절**: The situation of a certain era. **시점**: A moment in the passing time. **시중**: A place where people trade commodities and live their daily lives. **시집**: The house that one's husband's parents live in, or one's husband's household. **시집**: A collection of several poems made into a book. **시집가다**: For a woman to get married and become the wife of a man. **시청**: The act of watching and listening to a television broadcast with one's eyes and ears. **시청률**: The rate of people who watch a certain program on television. **시청자**: A person who watches a certain program on television. **시합**: The act of competing with others by showing one's ability to the fullest in games such as sports, etc. **시행**: The act of actually implementing a law, order, etc., after it is announced to the general public. **시험지**: A paper to which a reagent is applied, used to find out what particular substances are contained in a solution or gas. **식기**: Plates to hold food. **식당가**: A street with many restaurants. **식량**: Food necessary for a person to live. **식료품**: Food used as ingredients for cuisines. **식물**: A living organism that cannot move by itself, such as plants and trees. **식비**: Money used to buy food. **식사량**: The amount of food one eats. **식욕**: The desire to eat food. **식용유**: Oil used to make food. **식중독**: A disease caught by eating a toxic material in food. **식품점**: A store that sells all kinds of food. **식후**: After eating a meal. **식히다**: To lessen the level of a mood or feeling. **신**: An object that one wears in order to protect one's feet when standing or walking. **신경**: A feeling or thought about something. **신고**: The act of notifying or informing a superior of a matter such as a promotion, appointment, etc. **신기하다**: Unbelievably unusual and strange. **신나다**: To get excited and come to feel very good. **신념**: A firm belief in an idea, or the will to achieve it. **신맛**: The taste of vinegar or lemons. **신문사**: A company that makes and publishes newspaper. **신문지**: The paper on which news articles are printed. **신부**: In Catholicism, a clergyman appointed as a priest who performs religious ceremonies. **신분**: One's position in a trial, lawsuit, case, etc. **신비**: A surprising, mysterious phenomenon that cannot be understood with common sense. **신사**: (respectful) A common man. **신상품**: A product that is newly released. **신세**: The situation or circumstances of a person who is related to an unfortunate matter. **신세대**: A generation with a strong character that easily accepts new kinds of culture. **신앙**: The act of believing in a god and revering it. **신용**: The ability to take a product or money first and pay for it later; or a situation in which a person is considered to have such an ability. **신입**: A person who has newly joined a group or organization. **신입생**: A student who newly entered school. **신제품**: A newly released product. **신중**: The state of being very careful. **신청서**: A document to fill out when requesting something from a group or institution, etc. **신체**: The body of a person. **신체적**: Being related to the body of a person. **신체적**: Being related to the body of a person. **신혼**: Being newly married or marrying someone newly. **신혼부부**: A new couple who got married not long ago. **신화**: (figurative) An absolute, ground-breaking achievement. **실**: A long, thin material made by twisting cotton, wool, etc., together that is used in needlework or the weaving of cloth. **실감**: A feeling that one seems to actually experience it. **실내**: The inside of a room, building, etc. **실력**: Physical or military force; or the force to make another do something. **실례**: A concrete example in the real world. **실리다**: For a certain phenomenon or meaning to be shown or contained. **실망**: Losing hope or feeling hurt because something did not work out. **실습**: The act of practicing already learned skills or knowledge through a hands-on exercise. **실시**: An act of actually executing or enforcing a certain plan, law, system, etc. **실업**: A state in which a person willing or able to work loses a job or has not been given a chance to work. **실용적**: Having utility in real life. **실용적**: Useful in reality. **실은**: To tell the truth; in reality. **실장**: A person responsible for the whole department within a government, institution or company, whose name ends with "sil" in Korean. **실제**: A state or fact as it is. **실제**: In a state as it is or the fact as it is. **실제로**: In reality, neither fictitiously nor imaginarily; really. **실종**: Vanishing of a person or animal without a trace, whose life-or-death and whereabouts are never known. **실천**: The act of putting one's theory, plan, thought, etc. into action. **실체**: The true nature or state of a certain object or affair. **실컷**: Very severely. **실험**: The act of using a new form or method on a trial basis. **실현**: Making one's dream, plan, etc. come true. **싫증**: A thought or feeling that one neither likes nor wants to do something. **심각하다**: A state or degree being very severe, urgent, or important. **심리**: The science that studies the mental state or behavior of people or animals. **심리적**: Related to the state of one's mind. **심리적**: Relating to the state of mind. **심부름**: Doing something someone ordered or requested for. **심사**: The act of taking a close look at someone or something to decide whether it or he/she is good or bad. **심장**: (figurative) The mind of a person. **심정**: One's disposition and the way in which one expresses one's feelings and heart. **심지어**: Later, as an extremely severe result of something. **심판**: A person who judges who wins or loses, and whether a rule has been violated or not in a sports game; such a job. **십상**: A task or thing's being perfectly suitable for someone. **십상**: In an exactly adequate manner. **싱싱하다**: A color, etc., being clear and bright. **싸구려**: A product which is cheap or of poor quality. **싸다**: To defecate or urinate. **싸움**: The act of making efforts to get or accomplish something. **싸이다**: To fall into a situation or atmosphere. **싼값**: The price lower than a normal price. **쌍**: A word meaning that a thing is composed of two parts. **쌍둥이**: (figurative) A pair of two identical things. **쌓이다**: For things to do, worries, fatigue, etc., to come at once or be overlapped. **썩**: Right now. **썩다**: (slang) To be stuck in a place against one's will. **썰렁하다**: An atmosphere or mood suddenly becoming awkward. **쏘다**: (slang) To treat someone else, especially with food. **쏟다**: For the sun to shine strongly; for snow or rain to fall heavily. **쏟아지다**: For the rain or snow to fall in large quantity at once or for the sun to shine strongly. **쐬다**: To expose one's face or body directly to the wind, sunlight, etc. **쑤시다**: For one's body to ache as if being poked with a needle. **쑥스럽다**: Bashful because one's behavior or appearance is not natural. **쓰기**: An act of expressing one's thought or feeling in the written language. **쓰다듬다**: To comfort someone by calming his/her mind. **쓰러지다**: For a family or company, etc., to come to fail to function properly. **쓰이다**: For notes of a song that has come across one's mind to be written on a musical note. **쓰이다**: For a certain language or certain words to be used. **쓴맛**: A feeling of dislike or distress caused by a difficult situation. **쓸다**: To gather things together and have them all. **쓸데없다**: Being of no use or unprofitable. **쓸데없이**: Without any profit or use. **쓸쓸하다**: The weather being cold and gloomy. **씌우다**: To make someone blamed for or wrongly accused of a crime. **씨**: A word referring to the seed of a plant or animal. **씨름**: The act of grappling with and putting all one's energy into something in order to succeed in it. **씨앗**: (figurative) The root of a certain event. **씩씩하다**: One's behavior or attitude being vigorous, powerful, and strong. **씻기다**: For a bad state to disappear completely. **씻기다**: To wipe or make a dirty thing or stain eliminated. **아가**: (children’s term) A baby. **아깝다**: Deplorable because something is not fully used. **아끼다**: To take care of and value someone or something. **아냐**: An exclamation uttered when answering negatively in an emphatic and resolute manner. **아동**: Children of school age. **아드님**: (polite form) The son of someone. **아래층**: The story under a certain story. **아랫사람**: A person who is lower in a rank, position, status, etc., than oneself. **아랫집**: The house, apartment unit, etc. which is below one's own place or which is the next door down the street. **아마도**: (emphasizing form) Probably. **아무개**: A word referring to a person instead of referring to him/her by a specific name. **아무래도**: By any measure; even though one makes great effort. **아무런**: Not at all. **아무렇다**: Being in a state where one does something without giving much thought to it. **아무튼**: Regardless of how something turns out. **아쉬움**: Sad and regretful feelings from not meeting one's expectation. **아쉽다**: Sorry and sad due to a lingering attachment. **아시아**: One of the six continents in the northeastern part of the earth; it is stretched from Japan to Turkey; it is the home of the countries such as Korea, China, India, etc. **아예**: Completely. **아울러**: Together at the same time. **아이**: An exclamation uttered when the speaker does not know what to do because he/she is glad or happy. **아이고**: An exclamation the speaker utters while crying when he/she feels mortified or sad at someone's death. **아이디어**: A new, brilliant thought. **아침밥**: A meal eaten in the morning. **아침저녁**: The morning and the evening. **아프리카**: One of the six continents; the equator passes through the continent, explaining its tropical and subtropical climates; it is home to the countries such as Egypt, Nigeria, South Africa, etc. **아픔**: A state of being mentally distraught. **아하**: An exclamation uttered when the speaker realizes something he/she failed to think of before. **아홉째**: The state of totaling nine when counted from the start. **아홉째**: The ninth number in a sequence. **아홉째**: Being in the ninth place. **악몽**: (figurative) A situation so horrible one might wish it were a dream. **악수**: An act of extending a hand to hold the hand of another person, to greet, thank or reconcile. **악취**: A bad smell. **악화**: A state in which the symptoms of a disease grow worse. **안과**: A field of medical science that treats diseases of the eye, or the department of the hospital that is in charge of the field. **안기다**: To be wrapped around by two arms and pulled towards the other person's chest or to get into his/her arms. **안기다**: To bring about a certain result or change. **안내서**: A book or text that introduces and gives information about something. **안내소**: A place where people get information on a certain place, object, etc. **안내원**: A person whose job it is to guide visitors around a place, museum, etc. **안내판**: A board on which announcements or notices about certain things are posted. **안되다**: Looking stricken with a disease, worry, etc. **안방**: inner room; master bedroom; women's quarters: The room of a house where its hostess stays. **안부**: Recent news of a friend, acquaintance, etc. or the act of asking or telling each other how one is doing, as a greeting. **안색**: A facial expression or color of one's face. **안심**: The state of one's peaceful mind, without worries. **안약**: The medicine for eye diseases. **안전띠**: The belt fastening a passenger's body to the seat of a car or airplane, to protect him/her from getting injured in an accident. **안정**: A consistent state kept, without being changed or shaken. **안주**: Food served and eaten with drinks. **안타까워하다**: To feel sad and frustrated because something does not work out as planned or someone looks pitiful and pathetic. **안타깝다**: Feeling sad and frustrated because something does not work out as planned or someone looks pitiful and pathetic. **안팎**: A degree that is slightly higher or lower than a certain amount. **앉히다**: To assign someone to a position or seat. **않다**: Not to do an action. **알**: A word referring to the fruit of a plant or the egg of an animal. **알**: A bound noun that serves as a unit for counting the number of grains or small and round fruits. **알레르기**: (figurative) A physiological response of disliking and rejecting a certain object, phenomenon, or a person. **알려지다**: For a characteristic, achievement, etc., to be revealed to the world. **알아내다**: To learn something by finding out what one did not know before. **알아듣다**: To hear a certain sound and know what it is or who made it. **알아맞히다**: To be right because one knows the correct answer. **알아주다**: To accept a person's peculiar personality. **알차다**: The inside of something being filled, or something being rich in content. **앓다**: To be distressed or frustrated due to a worry or concern. **암**: (figurative) A serious defect or bad practices difficult to fix. **암기**: Memorizing something in one's brain, not forgetting. **압력**: One's power to make another yield to one's demand. **앗**: An exclamation uttered when the speaker musters up his/her power in the spur of the moment. **앞길**: The road ahead in one's life or the time one will spend along such road. **앞날**: The days ahead that one is supposed to live or the way ahead. **앞두다**: To have a certain period of time or length of distance to the goal. **앞뒤**: The words said earlier and later. **앞머리**: The front part of a matter or piece of writing. **앞바다**: The sea adjacent to the land. **앞서**: At an earlier time than now. **앞서다**: For one's ability, level, etc., to be superior to that of others. **앞세우다**: To show something to others proudly. **앞장서다**: To do something as a leader. **앞집**: A neighbor on the front side of one's house or across the street. **애**: A state of being that is very laborious and tough. **애기**: **애쓰다**: To make a great effort to achieve something. **애완동물**: An animal that one loves, and therefore raises, fondles, cherishes as a companion. **애정**: Mutual longing and loving feelings between a man and a woman. **액세서리**: A variety of things worn on clothes or the part of body for decoration. **액수**: The amount or quantity indicating the value of money. **액자**: A frame where a painting, photo, writing, etc. are inserted. **야간**: The period of time from the sunset through to the sunrise next day. **야경**: The view or scene at night. **야근**: An act of working overtime till late at night. **야단**: A very awkward situation. **야옹**: A word imitating the sound of a cat crying. **야외**: The area outside a house or building. **야하다**: Arousing sexual curiosity. **약도**: A roughly drawn map that contains important information. **약점**: A thing that one lacks compared to others, being a disadvantage. **약품**: A substance used for bringing about chemical changes. **약혼**: An official promise to marry someone. **약혼녀**: A woman that one has promised to marry. **약혼자**: A person who one has promised to marry. **얌전**: A state of being quiet and calm in terms of personality or attitude. **양**: (figurative) In Christianity, a person who believes in religion. **양**: The maximum amount of food one can eat. **양**: Two; all of two. **양국**: Two countries on both sides. **양념**: (figurative) An addition of something to increase the degree of fun or excitement. **양력**: A calendar that counts the days based on the year, which is taken for the earth to revolve around the sun. **양배추**: A vegetable originated in the West, shaped in a large, round ball with slightly white leaves overlapping each other inside thick and wide green ones. **양보**: An act of giving up one's interest for another person. **양산**: A type of umbrella usually used by women as a sunshade. **양식**: An expression method or form of works of art, architectures, etc., which is peculiar to a certain era or group. **양심**: The attitude of trying to speak and act righteously in accordance with one's own principles about right and wrong. **양옆**: Both left and right sides. **양쪽**: Both sides. **양파**: A round-shaped and pungent vegetable with distinctive smell. **얕다**: Having a short time passing. **어긋나다**: To fail to meet each other because they go in different directions. **어기다**: To violate a rule, promise, order, etc. **어느덧**: Very early while one does not notice. **어느새**: Very early while one does not notice. **어둠**: A state of being dark or a time when it is dark. **어려움**: A thing that is difficult and painful to do. **어려워하다**: To regard something as hard or difficult to do. **어르신**: (polite form) One's father's friend or an elderly person older than him. **어리석다**: One's thought or behavior being not smart or wise. **어린애**: An abbreviated word for a young boy or girl. **어머**: An exclamation used when mainly women are suddenly surprised at or admire an unexpected matter. **어색하다**: Not natural because it is against a certain rule, norm, custom, etc. **어저께**: The day preceding today. **어저께**: On the day before today. **어지럽다**: Messy because things are scattered all over a place. **어쨌든**: Regardless of what happened, or how something turned out. **어쩌다**: Once in a while, or sometimes. **어쩌면**: How on earth. **어쩐지**: Even though one does not know the reason. **어찌나**: (emphasizing form) With a strong intensity or in a great degree. **어찌하다**: To do something in a certain manner. **어차피**: Regardless of whether something turns out like this or that; regardless of whether one does something in this way or that. **어휘**: The number of words used within a particular scope; or the aggregate of such words. **어휴**: An exclamation uttered when the speaker feels exhausted, stunned, or frustrated. **억양**: An act of changing the rise and fall of the voice, or such a change. **억울하다**: Feeling distressed and frustrated because one has suffered damage although one did not do anything wrong. **억지로**: In an unreasonable and forcible way that does not meet common sense or the situation. **언급**: An act of talking about a certain matter or problem. **언덕**: (figurative) A person or thing that one can trust or rely on. **언론**: The act of publicizing a certain fact or opinion by the media such as newspaper, radio, television, etc. **언젠가**: Sometime in the past. **얹다**: To add a bit more to a certain amount or number. **얻어먹다**: To hear harsh words from someone. **얼룩**: The mark left by something being colored or dyed with liquid, etc. **얼른**: Right away without lingering over something. **얼리다**: To harden a liquid or something wet into a solid by cold. **얼마간**: Not a very long time. **엄격**: A state of being very strict and thorough in words, attitude, rules, etc. **엄숙하다**: A speech, attitude, etc., being heavy and refined. **엄청나다**: Unusually large in size or degree. **업계**: The area of activity for people engaged in the same industrial or commercial field. **업다**: To have a team's tokens called mals on the same station travel around the board together in yunnori, a traditional Korean game. **업무**: The work assigned in a workplace, etc. **업적**: Results that one achieves through endeavor and hard work in business, research, etc. **업체**: An organization that does a certain business for gaining profits. **없애다**: To kill a person, animal, insect, etc. **없어지다**: To leave a certain place, and thus come to be unseen. **없이**: Without a distinction between up and down, left and right, statuses, etc. **엉뚱하다**: A person, object, matter, etc., being not related to the current matter. **엉망**: A state of being befuddled with heavy drinking. **엉터리**: A state of looking plausible on the surface but that is actually useless, or such a person or thing. **엊그제**: The time of being just a few days ago. **엊그제**: A few days ago. **엎드리다**: To bend one's upper body down a lot or have it touch the floor. **에너지**: A thing's power to work or function. **에스컬레이터**: A device that resembles a staircase, designed to carry people or freight between floors automatically. **여**: A person who was born as a female. **여가**: The time when one is not working; or the time for relaxation in the middle of working. **여간**: To an ordinary degree. **여건**: A given condition. **여고**: An abbreviated word for girls' high school. **여관**: A place that accomodates guests in exchange for a certain amount of money. **여기다**: To consider a subject as something in one's mind. **여덟째**: The state of totaling eight when counted from the start. **여덟째**: The eighth number in a sequence. **여덟째**: The eighth number in a sequence. **여드름**: A small inflammation usually occuring in adolescence, accompanying redness and swelling on the face, body, etc. **여럿**: Many people; several people. **여름철**: The season of summer. **여름휴가**: Students or workers' taking a rest for a certain period of time in summer. **여보**: A word used by a husband or wife to address each other. **여부**: The possibility of being wrong or the room for doubt. **여섯째**: The state of totaling six when counted from the start. **여섯째**: The sixth number in a sequence. **여섯째**: The sixth number in a sequence. **여유**: The state of being relaxed and generous. **여유롭다**: Being a state in which there is abundant time, space, money, etc., enough to spare. **여인**: An adult female. **여전히**: The same as someone or something was before. **여쭈다**: To greet one's elders. **여행가**: A person who specializes in travel or travels as an occupation, not as a hobby. **역사가**: A person who studies history professionally. **역사상**: The period during which history has been recorded. **역사적**: Something important enough to be remembered by people for ages. **역사적**: Important, to be remembered for a long time. **역할**: A character that one plays in a drama, play, movie, etc. **엮다**: To collect materials into a book. **연**: A year. **연간**: For a year. **연고**: A medicament applied to the skin in order to heal a disease or wound on it. **연관**: Two or more things, phenomena, etc., being related to each other. **연구**: The act of investigating and analyzing an object or matter in detail in order to find a fact related to it. **연구소**: An institute that specializes in investigating and analyzing an object or matter in detail. **연구실**: A room used for conducting professional research. **연구원**: A person who specializes in conducting research as a job. **연구원**: An organization established to conduct professional research in a certain area. **연구자**: A person who investigates and analyzes an object or matter in detail in order to find a fact related to it. **연기**: The act of deferring to a later time. **연기**: A gas created when something burns. **연기**: An actor or actress expressing the character, personality, behavior, etc., of a role he/she plays. **연기자**: A person who acts professionally. **연도**: A period of one year, a time unit created for convenience in order to refer to the time of an occurrence. **연두색**: Light green like the color of a pea. **연령**: The number of years one has lived. **연못**: A deep and wide depression with water in it. **연봉**: The total amount of the salaries that an employee receives regularly for a year. **연설**: The act of expressing one's thought or opinion in front of many people. **연속**: The state of going on without being disconnected. **연애**: A man and a woman loving each other and having a romantic relationship. **연인**: A man and a woman who are in love with each other and have a relationship. **연장**: The continuance of something, or the extension of something to something else. **연주**: The act of playing a musical instrument to present a piece of music. **연주회**: A performance of music in front of an audience. **연체**: The state of being late in paying money or returning an object. **연체료**: Money one should pay for the days in arrears when one is late in paying money or returning an object. **연출**: The process of creating or showing a certain situation. **연탄**: Fuel made by compressing powdered anthracite, charcoal, etc., into a round mass. **연하다**: A color or color concentration being pale or low. **연합**: The act of establishing a group by combining several groups; a group established in such a way. **열기**: One's desire to do something. **열리다**: To produce fruit on the branch. **열매**: (figurative) A positive result achieved by making efforts. **열쇠고리**: A ring which is used for keeping keys together by putting them on it. **열정**: The attitude of doing something hard with enthusiasm. **열중**: The state of concentrating on something. **열째**: Totaling ten when counted from the start. **열째**: The tenth number in a sequence. **열째**: The tenth number in a sequence. **염색**: The act of coloring cloth, thread, hair, etc. **엿보다**: To wait for or seek an appropriate time. **영**: Quite or completely. **영리하다**: Quick-witted and smart. **영상**: The shape of an object that appears to one's eyes. **영상**: A temperature above zero degrees Celsius. **영양**: The process of maintaining life and developing the body by absorbing the energy and substance necessary for a living thing to live and function, or the components necessary for this. **영양제**: Vitamins and other supplements to support good health. **영업**: A business or activity engaged in for the purpose of making money. **영역**: The field or range within which power, thoughts, activities, etc., have influence. **영웅**: A person who has a special talent and courage and uses it to do something difficult that is almost impossible for an ordinary person to do. **영원**: A phenomenon or shape lasting endlessly; the state of not changing forever. **영원히**: In a manner of a phenomenon or shape lasting endlessly; in a manner of forever not changing. **영향**: The effect or action of something extending to others. **영향력**: The power of the effect or action of something extending to others. **영혼**: The spiritual part of a person that enables him/her to do something. **영화감독**: A person who directs the acting, filming, recording, editing, etc., in the process of making a movie. **예**: Long ago. **예**: An instance of something used to illustrate or argue for something else. **예**: Rules that should be followed as manners. **예감**: A feeling that something is about to happen. **예고**: The act of notifying someone of something before it happens. **예금**: The act of entrusting money to a financial institution such as a bank, or the money. **예방**: The act of taking precautionary measures to prevent a disease, accident, etc. **예보**: The act of predicting and letting people know about what is likely to happen, or such a prediction. **예비**: The act of preparing something before actually carrying out it. **예산**: The act of developing a plan for where money will be spent by estimating income and expenses in a government, organization, company, etc.; or such a plan. **예상**: The act of guessing what will happen in the future, or something guessed. **예선**: A contest which is held to choose people qualified to take part in the finals. **예술가**: A person who creates works of art, or expresses his/her ideas through such works. **예술적**: The state of having the characteristics of art. **예술적**: Having the characteristics of art. **예식장**: A place for holding a ceremony such as an engagement ceremony or wedding. **예외**: Something which does not follow a general rule or statement. **예의**: A polite way of talking or behaving which one should respect while living as a member of society. **예절**: A polite way of talking or behaving which one should respect while living as a member of society. **예정**: The act of deciding or expecting what to do in the future. **예측**: The act of guessing what will happen in the future. **예컨대**: For example. **옛날이야기**: A story that is said to have happened a long time ago or a story made up to be a true story of long ago. **오**: An exclamation used to express such feelings as surprise, gladness, etc. **오가다**: To maintain a friendly relationship by visiting each other. **오늘날**: The present. **오락**: A computer electronic game. **오락실**: A place which is equipped with facilities needed for amusements such as games; a place for amusements. **오래도록**: For a long while. **오래오래**: For a long duration of time. **오랜**: The time that has passed being long. **오로지**: Only something without other things. **오르내리다**: To raise and bring down goods, cargo, etc. **오른발**: The foot on the right side. **오른편**: The east-facing side from the vantage point of someone who is facing north. **오리**: A domestic duck raised for its meat or eggs. **오염**: The disappearance of pureness. **오직**: Only one person or thing without any others being included. **오징어**: A sea animal which has a long, pliable body with ten long legs and no bones. **오토바이**: A two-wheeled vehicle which moves with the energy provided by an engine. **오페라**: A play combined with music and dance, in which actors and actresses sing their all lines. **오피스텔**: An office equipped with additional facilities such as a bedroom, a kitchen, a bathroom, etc. **오해**: A failure to understand or interpret something correctly. **오히려**: Instead of doing something. **옥수수**: The fruit-bearing kernels of a corn plant which has a tall stem with long leaves, and produces a beard-like tassle. **온**: All or entire **온갖**: All sorts of. **온라인**: The state of being connected to or being able to access other computers through the Internet. **온몸**: The entire body. **온종일**: From morning till night. **온종일**: Throughout the day from morning till night. **온천**: A spring where underground water heated by geothermal heat comes out. **온통**: All of everything. **올**: The current year. **올라서다**: To rise to a high position or level. **올라타다**: To climb on top of something. **올려놓다**: To make a price become higher. **올려다보다**: To serve someone with respect. **올바르다**: One's remarks, thoughts, behaviors, etc., being right and correct without breaking the norms. **올여름**: The summer of this year. **옮기다**: To infect someone with a disease. **옷차림**: One's appearance when dressed. **와인**: Western liquor made by fermenting the juice of grapes. **완벽**: The state of being complete without flaws or defects. **완성**: The state of being finished completely. **완전**: The state of having everything in place without shortcomings. **왕복**: The act of going and returning. **왠지**: For some reason one does not know exactly. **외**: An expression used to indicate that something is beyond a certain range or limit. **외갓집**: The home where one's mother's parents, siblings, etc., live. **외과**: A field of medical science that treats scars on a body or diseases of internal organs mainly through surgery, or the department of the hospital that is in charge of the field. **외교**: The practice of making political, economic, and cultural relations with other countries. **외교관**: A position of dealing with diplomatic affairs on behalf of one's country while staying in a foreign country, or a person in such a position. **외로움**: A solitary feeling of being alone in the world. **외면**: A person's remarks or behaviors that show on the outside. **외모**: The outward look of someone. **외박**: The act of sleeping in another place, not one's home or residence. **외부**: The outer world of a certain organization. **외삼촌**: A word used to refer to or address a brother of one's mother. **외숙모**: The wife of one's mother's brother. **외식**: The act of going out to eat; a meal outside home. **외아들**: The only son in a family without any other sons. **외출복**: Clothes that a person wears when he/she leaves home to do something. **외치다**: To argue strongly. **외투**: Clothes that one wears over other clothes to protect from the cold, such as a jumper or coat. **외할머니**: A word used to refer to or address one's mother's mother. **외할아버지**: A word used to refer to or address one's mother's father. **왼발**: A left foot **왼편**: The side of someone facing west when he/she turns toward the north. **요**: An object that one lays out on the floor to sit or lie on. **요**: (either endearing or disparaging) A word that is used to refer to something which was just mentioned. **요가**: An exercise of disciplining the body and mind, which dates back to antiquity and comes from India. **요구**: An act of asking for something that one needs or is supposed to receive. **요구르트**: A drink made from fermented milk. **요리법**: A method of dealing with or handling a certain object or affair skillfully. **요새**: An abbreviated word for these days, meaning an extremely short period from a while ago to the present. **요소**: The smallest unit that cannot be divided any further. **요약**: An act of selecting major points from one's speech or writing and making them brief. **요인**: An important element that establishes a certain object, event, etc. **요즈음**: A period from a while ago to the present. **요청**: The act of asking someone to do something necessary, or such a request. **욕**: (slang) Trouble. **욕망**: The act of longing for something, or such a longing. **욕실**: A room equipped with a facility for taking a bath. **욕심**: An excessive longing to get or have something. **용**: An imaginary animal that has a body similar to that of a big snake, a horn on its head and sharp claws on its four feet. **용감하다**: Daring and bold. **용건**: Things to do. **용기**: A spirit of bravery without fear. **용도**: The area or purpose for which something is used. **용돈**: Money that a person can use freely for various purposes. **용서**: The act of granting pardon without punishing or scolding someone's mistake or sin. **용어**: A word specially used in a certain field. **용품**: Things used appropriately for a certain task or purpose. **우기다**: To assert one's opinion or will in a persistent manner. **우려**: The act of worrying or being concerned about something; or such a worry or concern. **우물**: A hole dug to collect underground water for human use. **우선**: The act of giving someone or something special treatment over others. **우수**: The state of being outstanding among many. **우습다**: (for an affair or appearance to be) Strange. **우승**: The act of defeating all opponents and taking the first place in a contest or competition. **우아하다**: Refined and beautiful. **우연**: Something happened by chance without a proper cause. **우연히**: In the manner of happening by chance without a proper cause. **우울**: The state of feeling low and frustrated due to worries, etc. **우정**: The affection among friends. **우주**: The space that encompasses celestial bodies such as the sun, earth, moon, etc. **우체통**: A box installed to allow people to put in letters, etc. **우측**: The side that is the same as the east when a person faces north. **우편**: Things such as letters, packages, etc., which are sent and received by mail. **우편물**: Things such as letters, packages, etc., which are sent and received by mail. **우편함**: A small box hung on the wall or at the gate, the entrance of a building, etc., for receiving mail. **우회전**: The motion of a car, etc. turning toward right. **운**: The fortune of something working out well. **운동량**: In physics, the figure equal to the mass of a moving object multiplied by its velocity. **운동선수**: A person who is good at sports or does it as a profession. **운명**: Matters relating to life and death, or successes and failures in the future. **운반**: The act of carrying things, etc. **운영**: The act of managing and leading an organization, group, etc. **운전기사**: (polite form) A driver. **운전면허**: Official permission to drive a car, motorcycle, etc., on the road. **운행**: Something in the space moving along an orbit. **울리다**: For the ground, a building, etc., to shake due to external force or sound. **울리다**: To gain fame or exercise one's influence so much as to be known to everyone. **울음소리**: The sound of crying. **움직임**: A change of a certain situation or phenomenon. **웃기다**: For a matter or behavior to be pathetic or shocking. **웃어른**: A person who is older, or senior in status or position and thus should be treated with respect. **웃음소리**: The sound of laughing. **워낙**: Originally. **원**: A round shape or form. **원래**: The beginning of something. **원래**: From the first; innately. **원룸**: A house in which one room functions as a bedroom, living room, and kitchen. **원리**: The law that is the base of a certain act. **원만하다**: Getting along well with each other. **원서**: A document that contains the details of an application for a company or school, etc. **원숭이**: A human-looking animal with a long tail and bare face and buttocks that is good at climbing trees. **원인**: An affair or event that acts as the root of an occurrence of a certain thing or change of an object's state. **원칙**: A basic rule or law that one is expected to follow consistently in a certain act or theory, etc. **월**: The first day of a week. **월드컵**: An international sports competition held every four years or the champion cup of the competition. **월말**: The time around the end of the month. **월세**: A room or house rented on a monthly basis. **웬**: A certain **웬만하다**: Near or over an average level. **웬일**: How a certain affair comes to pass; or a certain affair. **위**: A unit used to indicate a rank or order. **위기**: A dangerously critical moment or risky moment. **위대하다**: Remarkable and outstanding. **위로**: The act of easing someone's pain or sadness through warm words or behavior, etc. **위반**: The act of breaking the law, an order, promise, etc. **위아래**: A compound noun meaning juniors and seniors. **위원회**: An institution that discusses and handles a certain matter in a fairly independent field unlike general administration. **위층**: The floor just above a certain floor. **위하다**: To try to realize a certain idea or goal. **위험성**: A quality of being dangerous or becoming risky. **위협**: The act of making someone feel afraid, with fierce words or behavior. **윗사람**: A person who is higher than oneself in one's social life. **유교**: The religion taking the three principles and the five moral disciplines in human relations as virtues, whose central religious texts are the four books and five classics. **유난히**: In the manner of a state, one's personality, behavior, etc., being very uncommon. **유도**: A state in which something in an electric or magnetic field becomes electrified or magnetized. **유람선**: A ship sailing with passengers who are sightseers. **유럽**: "one of six continents located in the northwestern area of Asia; it shares a borderline, the Ural Mountains, with Asia; it is the home of countries such as France, Germany, Italy, etc." **유료**: The state of charging toll, fare, fee, etc. **유리**: The state of being profitable. **유리창**: A window made by inserting glass. **유머**: An act or remark that makes people laugh. **유물**: (figurative) A system, ideology, or custom of a former age, which is not useful anymore. **유산**: Something inherited by former generations. **유일**: The state of being the only one. **유적**: A remaining historic trace. **유적지**: The place where a historic relic or remains are. **유지**: An act of keeping a certain state, situation, etc., as it is. **유창하다**: Speaking without reserve or reading briskly. **유치하다**: To attract an event, business, funds, etc. **유치하다**: Immature and not fully developed. **유통**: The activity of transacting goods through several stages from a producer to a consumer. **유형**: A group of things that are categorized according to their nature, characteristics, shapes, etc., or something that belongs to that group. **유혹**: An act of sexually attracting someone of the opposite sex. **육군**: A troop doing battle on land. **육지**: The land connected to a continent, not an island. **육체**: A human body. **육체적**: The state of being related to a body. **육체적**: Related to a body. **으악**: An exclamation uttered loudly when the speaker is surprised or surprises someone. **은**: A word meaning 'silver' or 'made of silver'. **은혜**: The love given to human beings from God. **음력**: A calendar used to count days based on the time that the moon takes to orbit around the earth. **음반**: A CD, cassette tape, or record disk in which many songs are stored. **음성**: A human voice or sound of speech. **음식물**: Something eaten or drunk by people. **음악회**: A gathering organized so that people can listen to music being played live. **음주**: An act of drinking an alcoholic drink. **응급실**: A room in a hospital, etc., with the first aid equipment for patients. **응답**: An act of answering someone's call or question. **응시**: An act of applying for a test. **응원**: An act of encouraging or helping someone better perform, next to him/her. **의견**: A thought one has after making one's own judgment on a certain object or phenomenon. **의논**: An act of sharing opinions about a certain topic. **의도**: One's idea or plan to do something. **의류**: All kinds of clothes, including T-shirts, shirts, pants, etc. **의무**: Something that one is required to do mandatorily by law. **의무적**: The quality of having to be done as a matter of duty. **의무적**: Having to be done as a matter of duty. **의문**: The state of being doubtful of something; a doubtful problem or truth. **의복**: An item that one wears to cover his/her body, protect himself/herself from cold, heat, etc., and look fashionable. **의사**: One's will to do something. **의상**: Clothes that an actor or actress, or dancer wears for the stage. **의식**: A feeling or thought about a certain object or matter, which is created among individuals or in a group. **의식**: An event carried out according to a certain manner and procedure. **의심**: The mind of considering something to be uncertain or not believing someone or something. **의외**: Something that one did not expect or think of. **의욕**: One's positive mind or will to do something. **의존**: A state of depending on the help of something, not being able to do a certain thing on one's own. **의지**: The act of mentally depending on someone or something and receiving help from him/her or it; a subject on which one depends. **의지**: An intention to achieve something. **이곳저곳**: A variety of places or locations that are not clearly specified. **이국적**: The quality of having the characteristics or atmosphere of a foreign country, not one's own country. **이국적**: Having the characteristics or atmosphere of a foreign country, not one's own country. **이기적**: The state of caring only about one's own interests. **이기적**: Thinking only of one's advantage. **이끌다**: To make someone or something be in a certain state or do a certain act. **이내**: Within a certain range. **이내**: Continuously from a certain moment. **이념**: An idea considered ideal, which forms the basis of the thought of a country, society, or individual. **이달**: This month **이대로**: In the same way as this. **이동**: The act of shifting by making movements; the act of changing one's location by moving. **이따**: After a while. **이러다**: To speak like this. **이런저런**: Unclear and various kinds of. **이력서**: A document on which one's personal history including one's academic background and career is written. **이론**: Ideological knowledge as opposed to practice. **이롭다**: Giving help or an advantage. **이루다**: To sleep. **이루어지다**: For something to be made up of or consist of certain elements or parts. **이룩하다**: To build a country, society, etc. **이르다**: To extend over a certain range. **이르다**: According to what an old proverb, book, etc. says. **이른바**: As people call something. **이름표**: A card bearing one's name or title, etc. **이리**: To here or to this direction. **이리저리**: This way and that without a definite destination. **이만**: To just this much and no more. **이만큼**: About this much; just so much. **이만큼**: To this degree; about this much. **이메일**: Letters exchanged through the Internet or a communications network. **이미지**: One's memory or impression of someone or something. **이민**: The act of leaving one's native country and living in another. **이발**: The act of having one's hair cut and groomed. **이벤트**: An event or party held for many people. **이별**: The act of separating or parting from someone so that one cannot see him/her for a long time. **이비인후과**: A field of medical science that treats diseases of the ears, nose, throat, bronchus, and gullet, or the department of the hospital that is in charge of the field. **이상적**: The best among things that can be thought about something. **이상적**: Best among things that can be thought about something. **이성**: The capacity to think and judge logically with proper values and knowledge. **이성**: A person of the opposite gender, namely a woman to a man, and a man to a woman. **이어**: Continuously after the preceding words or actions. **이어지다**: For a certain idea, custom, characteristic, secret method, etc., to descend from generation to generation. **이왕**: The time before now. **이왕**: As long as things have gotten into such a state. **이외**: Outside of a certain range. **이용자**: A person who uses a certain object, equipment, system, etc. **이웃집**: A house close or adjacent to one's home. **이윽고**: Finally after some time passes. **이익**: Money left after subtracting the total cost from the total income earned during a certain period of time. **이자**: A fixed amount of money paid in return for borrowing money from others. **이전**: The act of transferring one's right, etc., to another, or taking over someone's right, etc. **이제야**: For the first time at this very moment being spoken of. **이튿날**: The day following a certain day. **이하**: A state in which something comes after or is below a certain point of reference in order or ranking. **이해관계**: A relationship involving gains and losses. **이혼**: The act by a married couple to end their marriage legally. **익다**: One's eyes having been adapted to darkness or light. **익히다**: To make gimchi/kimchi, a liquor, jang, a traditional Korean sauce, etc., have a good flavor. **익히다**: To make oneself not unfamiliar with something by experiencing it repeatedly. **인간**: (disparaging) A person whom one doesn't like. **인간관계**: A relationship among people, or between people and organization. **인간성**: The nature or quality of a person. **인간적**: A quality of being characteristic of human beings. **인간적**: Characteristic of human beings. **인격**: An independent person who is capable of taking responsibility for his/her behavior. **인공**: A state of being done by human power, not created by nature. **인구**: The number of people who are engaged in a certain job or industry. **인도**: A path for pedestrians. **인력**: Working force of people. **인류**: People as distinguished from other animals. **인물**: An outstanding person. **인삼차**: ginseng tea: An herbal tea brewed from ginseng. **인상**: The appearance of a person's face. **인상**: An act of raising the price of goods, wage, fare, etc. **인상**: A feeling that a certain object or person gives. **인상적**: Staying in one's memory for a long time without a certain feeling or impression getting erased. **인상적**: A certain feeling or impression not disappearing, lingering long in one's memory. **인생**: While one lives. **인쇄**: The physical act of pressing letters, words, graphics, etc. onto a piece of paper or cloth with a machine. **인스턴트**: A state of being easily done at the moment, or a simple food that can be cooked immediately. **인식**: An act of knowing and understanding something clearly. **인심**: The minds of individuals. **인연**: A reason for, or the history of, something. **인용**: An act of repeating another person's remark or text in one's own speech or writing. **인원**: People who constitute a certain party or organization; or the number of such persons. **인재**: A person with knowledge and ability, being highly useful to society. **인정**: The hearts of people. **인정**: The act of considering or accepting that something is certain. **인정받다**: For one's ability or the value of something to be considered to be commendable. **인체**: A body of a human being. **인터뷰**: The act of collecting information while talking with an individual or group for a specific purpose. **인하**: An act of lowering the price of goods, wage, fare, etc. **인하다**: To be the cause of something. **일**: The last day of a week starting from Monday. **일곱째**: The state of totaling seven when counted from the start. **일곱째**: The seventh number in a sequence. **일곱째**: Being in the seventh place. **일교차**: A range of changes in daily temperature, air pressure, humidity, etc. **일단**: If one does something one time. **일대**: The whole of a certain area or region. **일등**: A rank or grade that comes first among many things. **일반**: The quality of being applicable to the whole, not a part. **일반인**: A person who does not have any special connection with something. **일반적**: A quality of not coming under a certain professional or special area. **일반적**: Not coming under a certain professional or special area. **일본어**: A language that Japanese people speak. **일부러**: With one's real purpose or intention hidden. **일부분**: One portion of something, or part of the whole. **일상**: An ordinary life repeated everyday. **일상생활**: An uneventful, ordinary life. **일상적**: A state of something not being special because it is a part of daily life. **일상적**: Something being not special because it is a part of daily life. **일생**: One's lifetime from birth to death. **일석이조**: An act of accomplishing two things with a single action. **일손**: A person who works. **일시**: A compound word for date and time. **일시불**: The act of paying a sum of money all at once. **일시적**: A state in which a situation lasts for a short period of time. **일시적**: Lasting for a short time. **일쑤**: A frequent or habitual occurrence of something. **일어**: A language that Japanese people speak. **일으키다**: To get out of order. **일일이**: Every time, with a lot of conditions, excuses, etc. **일자리**: An occupation or a place where one is employed like a workplace, an office, etc. **일정**: A state in which the size, shape, range, time, etc., of something is fixed. **일정**: Routes that one has to travel on that day; a decided order in which locations will be visited. **일정표**: A list on which things one has to do for a day have been written. **일종**: A certain kind of something. **일찍이**: In former days; before. **일체**: All of something. **일체**: All of everything. **일출**: A state in which the sun goes up. **일치**: A state in which things in comparison are not different, either being exactly the same or matching one another. **일행**: A person who one goes along with, or a group of such persons. **일회용**: Something that is discarded after one use. **일회용품**: A product designed to be discarded after one use. **읽기**: An act of reading and understanding a text, or such a method. **읽히다**: In the game of go or janggi, Korean chess, for one's move to be guessed by one's opponent. **읽히다**: To make someone read a work of a writer. **임금**: A sum of money that one receives for doing work. **임무**: A given work or a task assigned to someone. **임시**: Something for a short period that has not been decided in advance. **임신**: The state of bearing a child or young in the womb. **입국**: An act of entering one's own country or another country. **입금**: An act of putting a sum of money into his/her account or other person's account in a financial institution like a bank. **입대**: An act of joining an army and becoming a solider. **입력**: An act of entering data like words, numbers, etc. and making the computer remember them. **입맛**: (figurative) The desire to enjoy a job or own a thing because one is interested in it. **입사**: An act of getting a job with a company, etc. and becoming its employee. **입시**: An examination that one has to take to enter a college, etc. **입장**: Entering the place of an event or performance. **입장**: The state or situation one faces at the moment, or the attitude one takes in this position. **입장료**: The fee paid to enter the place of an event or performance. **입학시험**: The examination taken by the applicants of a school to be selected as new students. **입학식**: The ceremony for new students who first go to a school. **입히다**: To spread something on the surface of something else or cover something with something else. **잇다**: To happen right after something. **잇따르다**: For one incident, act, etc., to happen after another. **잊히다**: For something that one knew once to not come to one's recollection anymore. **자**: A stationery item with scales printed on it, used to measure length. **자**: An exclamation the speaker says to himself/herself when he/she feels embarrassed or finds himself/herself at a loss for what to do. **자**: A day of the month in a certain year. **자가용**: A car that is used by an individual or his/her family, not for business. **자격**: A condition or ability needed to acquire a certain status or position. **자격증**: Paper proving that its holder is qualified in a field. **자극**: The act of causing an organ of a person, animal, etc., to react with a stimulus, or such an agent. **자기**: A pronoun used when a young husband and wife or friends refer to each other. **자기**: The person himself/herself. **자꾸만**: (emphasizing form) Again and again. **자녀**: A son or a daughter or a son and a daughter collectively, raised by parents or a parent. **자동**: A state in which work, an action, etc., is done immediately without going through a certain process. **자라나다**: To advance to a better state or a higher level. **자랑스럽다**: Having something to be boastful of. **자료**: Material which is the basis for conducting study or research. **자리**: Bedding that is used for sleeping. **자막**: Letters in a movie, television, etc., that show the title, conversation, explanation, etc., on the screen so that the audience or viewers can read them. **자매**: A name a female Christian is called by other Christians. **자본**: In economy, the money, means of production, and labor needed to produce goods. **자부심**: The mind of feeling confident about one's own value or ability and being proud of it. **자살**: The act of killing oneself. **자세**: One's mental attitude or frame of mind toward something. **자세하다**: Concrete and clear even in insignificant parts. **자신**: A state in which one believes firmly that one can do something or something will be realized; such belief. **자신감**: One's belief that one can achieve something satisfactorily on one's own. **자연스럽다**: Seeming to be done on its own without effort. **자연적**: The quality of occurring automatically without special efforts. **자연적**: Occurring automatically without special efforts. **자연환경**: The conditions or state of nature like mountains, rivers, oceans, animals, plants, rain, etc., which affect the lives of human beings. **자연히**: Automatically without a certain intention, effort, etc. **자원**: Labor or a technology that is used by people to live or perform economic production activities. **자유롭다**: Able to do as one thinks and at will without being bound or restricted by something. **자존심**: The mind of respecting oneself and disliking bending before others. **자주색**: A reddish color tinged with dark green. **작가**: A person who creates a poem, novel, play, broadcast script, picture, etc. **작곡**: The act of writing the melody of music. **작곡가**: A person who writes the melody of music professionally. **작동**: The act of a machine, etc., working; the act of making a machine, etc., work. **작문**: A student's act of expressing his/her opinions or thoughts in writing. **작성**: A state in which something worthy of being recorded has been accomplished, as in sports games, etc. **작업**: Something that one does with a certain purpose or plan. **작용**: The process of causing or affecting a certain phenomenon or act. **작은아버지**: A word used to refer to or address one's father's younger brother; it usually refers to or addresses his married younger brother. **작은어머니**: A word used by the offspring of a man's legal wife to refer to or address one's father's mistress. **작은집**: One's concubine or the house where she lives. **작전**: The act of devising methods or measures for fighting a battle, carrying out a search, or delivering supplies, etc., for military purposes. **작품**: (figurative) Something planned by someone. **잔돈**: The balance of money that one receives or gives back to someone after payment is made. **잔디밭**: A patch of land where there is a lot of grass. **잔뜩**: To an extreme degree. **잔소리**: The act of rebuking someone or interfering in his/her affair while saying unnecessary things that he/she does not want to hear; such words. **잘나다**: A word used to express that one feels displeased with someone's behavior. **잘리다**: For a part to be cut off. **잘살다**: To live affluently with a lot of wealth. **잠그다**: To close one's mouth and say nothing. **잠기다**: For one's throat to become hoarse or swollen, failing to make proper sounds. **잠기다**: To fall into a thought or feeling. **잠들다**: (euphemism) To die. **잠옷**: Comfortable garments that one wears in bed. **잠자리**: An insect that has a slender, long body and two sets of thin, transparent, and reticulate wings. **잡아당기다**: To grab and draw toward oneself. **잡아먹다**: To waste time, resource, space, etc. **잡히다**: For a wrinkle, pleat, etc., to be created. **장가**: The act of a man taking a woman as his wife. **장관**: The head of a government ministry responsible for national affairs. **장기간**: A long period. **장기적**: The quality of spanning a long period of time. **장기적**: Spanning a long period of time. **장난**: A mean thing that one does to make fun of someone else. **장남**: The first to be born among one's sons. **장단점**: Good qualities and bad qualities. **장래**: Possibilities or prospects for the future. **장례식**: A set of rituals for a dead person including his/her burial or cremation. **장르**: A kind or category of literary or artistic work. **장마철**: The period in the summer when it rains for days on end. **장면**: A moment or instant in a movie or play. **장모**: The mother of one's wife. **장사**: The act of buying products to sell for profit, or such business. **장수**: The act of living long. **장식**: The act of decorating something beautifully, or an item used in decorating. **장애**: In telecommunications, a physical phenomenon such as static, interference, etc., that inhibits signal transmission. **장애인**: A person who has difficulty leading an ordinary life or holding a job due to physical or mental problems. **장인**: The father of one's wife. **장점**: An aspect that is good, one is good at, or is desirable. **장하다**: One's work, character, etc., being great and making others proud. **장학금**: Money awarded to a researcher to help him/her with his/her academic research. **재능**: An aptitude and ability to do something well. **재다**: To examine or compare on a variety of aspects. **재떨이**: A container into which cigarette ash is flicked. **재빨리**: In a manner of being quick and agile. **재산**: (figurative) Something valuable. **재생**: The reappearance or growth of a missing or damaged part of a living creature. **재수**: Good luck that will lead to something great. **재우다**: To cause someone to fall asleep. **재작년**: The year that was right before last year. **재주**: A way or idea to cope with something. **재킷**: An item that covers the surface of a record. **재판**: A proceeding at a court where a judgement is rendered on a legal issue in accordance with the law. **재학**: The state of belonging to a school. **재학생**: A student who belongs to and studies at a school. **재활용**: The act of using discarded items or making them useful for other purposes. **재활용품**: An item made out of waste materials. **잼**: A food made by adding sugar to fruits and boiling them down. **저급**: Quality, level, etc. being low. **저기**: An exclamation used when one finds it awkward and uncomfortable to bring up something. **저녁때**: The time when dinner is eaten. **저러다**: To talk like that. **저렴하다**: Low in price. **저리**: To that place, or in that direction. **저마다**: Every one or thing individually. **저마다**: For every individual person or thing. **저만큼**: A place that is some distance away from where one is. **저만큼**: To a place that is a certain distance away from where one is. **저울**: A device that is used to weigh things. **저자**: The writer of a text or book. **저장**: The act of collecting and keeping items, goods, etc. **저절로**: On one's own without external help or naturally without making conscious efforts. **저지르다**: To cause something problematic. **저축**: Earned money that one has left after spending. **적**: An opponent that one fights against in a game or match. **적극**: The state of being committed to something and thus acting positively and vigorously. **적극적**: Being proactive and positive in attitude toward something. **적극적**: Proactive and positive in attitude toward something. **적당히**: Tactfully enough to avoid causing a problem. **적성**: Personality or ability that is suitable for a certain job. **적어도**: Even in the worst-case scenario. **적어지다**: To become smaller. **적용**: The act of adapting or executing something to fit a specific purpose. **적응**: The act of getting accustomed to, or changing to fit into, a condition or environment. **적자**: The amount of loss incurred as a result of spending more than one earns. **적절하다**: Just right. **적히다**: For one's personal information to be put on a list after his/her wrongdoing was revealed. **전개**: The act of spreading out in width or length. **전국**: The entirety of a nation. **전국적**: Something that spans the entire nation in scale or range. **전국적**: Spanning the entire nation in scale or range. **전날**: A day in the past or some time ago. **전달**: The act of sending or causing to receive a signal, stimulation, etc. **전망**: The act of anticipating a future situation, or an expected situation in the future. **전문**: The act of studying or taking on a field only in which one has a lot of knowledge and experience, or such a field. **전문가**: A person with a lot of knowledge, experience and skills in a field. **전문적**: The act of practicing something professionally or the state of belonging to a profession. **전문적**: Practicing something professionally or belonging to a profession. **전문점**: A store that sells a particular kind of goods. **전문직**: An occupation that requires professional knowledge or skills. **전설**: A story that has been passed on from a long time ago. **전세**: rent; rented house: A room that one leases from its owner in exchange for a sum of money given to him/her as a security. **전시**: The act of setting up a variety of items in one place for visitors to look at. **전시장**: A place where a variety of items are set up for visitors to look at. **전시회**: A gathering or event where a variety of items are set up for visitors to look at. **전용**: The practice of using something only. **전원**: All the people belonging to a group. **전원**: A source of generating electricity such as a power plant. **전자**: In an atom, an elementary particle that carries negative charge and revolves around the atom's nucleus. **전자레인지**: A cooking device used to heat food with high-frequency waves. **전자사전**: A dictionary whose content is derived from a paper dictionary and in turn is stored in electronic storage, and which displays the definitions and information the user searches for. **전쟁**: (figurative) The act of aggressively responding to an issue or competing fiercely, or a complex situation arising from such act. **전제**: Something put forward first in order to form a certain object or phenomenon. **전체적**: Something that relates to the whole. **전체적**: Relating to the whole. **전통**: A way of life including thoughts, customs, forms of behavior, etc., that have been uniquely formed and passed on from previous generations in a group or community. **전통적**: Something that has been passed on from previous generations in a group or community. **전통적**: Being passed on from previous generations in a group or community. **전후**: The state of being slightly more or less than a quantity, or a bit earlier or later than a point in time. **절**: A place where Buddhist monks enshrine a statue of the Buddha and discipline their minds by teaching and learning their religious doctrine. **절**: A type of greeting where one bends his/her body as a show of respect. **절**: One of two or more subsections into which the lyrics of a song is divided. **절대**: The state of being incomparable and unmatched or existing in itself without comparison with others. **절대**: Surely and in any case. **절대로**: Surely in any case. **절대적**: The state of being incomparable or unmatched. **절대적**: Incomparable or unmatched. **절망**: The act of abandoning any hopes due to dim prospects, or such a state. **절반**: The act of dividing one into halves, or such a half. **절약**: The act of saving resources by refraining from reckless use and using them only when necessary. **절차**: An order or method that one should go through in doing something. **젊은이**: A person of a young age. **젊음**: The state of being young both physically and mentally. **점**: A specific aspect among many. **점**: In the game of go, a bound noun used to count the number of stones placed on the board or those captured from the opponent. **점검**: The act of examining each and every element, or such examination. **점심때**: The time between morning and evening when the sun is at its highest during the day. **점원**: A person who is paid to work at a store. **점잖다**: Dignified and refined. **점차**: The act of progressing in succession. **점차**: Little by little in succession. **점퍼**: A comfortable upper garment that is appropriate for leisure or sporting activities. **접근**: The state of having a close and intimate relationship. **접속**: In computing, the act of connecting multiple processors and memory devices physically or through an electronic circuit. **접수**: The act of getting money, items, etc. **접어들다**: To get to a certain point or road. **접촉**: The act of being close to or meeting with someone. **접하다**: To come to know about or experience something by staying close to it. **젓다**: For an animal to keep moving its tail or wings. **정**: love; affection: The state of mind where one feels love or affection for someone. **정기**: The state of a deadline or period being set at a defined interval, or such deadline or period. **정기적**: The state of a deadline or period being set at a defined interval. **정기적**: A deadline or period being set at a defined interval. **정답**: The right answer to a problem or question. **정당**: A group formed by people with the same political ideas or opinions for the purpose of taking power and realizing their political ideals. **정말로**: Literally without disguise or falsehood. **정면**: The act of facing something directly. **정반대**: The state of being the complete opposite of something. **정보**: Knowledge gained through electronic means such as computer technology. **정보화**: The act of adding value by transforming knowledge and data into a form of information. **정부**: The national institution that is responsible for administrative affairs. **정상**: The state of being adequate with no noticeable changes or problems. **정상적**: The state of being adequate with no noticeable changes or problems. **정상적**: Adequate with no noticeable changes or problems. **정성**: A true and sincere attitude of making one's best efforts. **정수기**: A machine that filters water cleanly. **정식**: Proper protocol or ceremony with adequate formalities. **정신**: A cause, objective, ideology, or thought that underlies something. **정신없다**: Very busy. **정신없이**: Very busily. **정신적**: Something that relates to the mind. **정신적**: Relating to the mind. **정오**: Twelve o'clock in the afternoon. **정원**: The number of people that is pre-determined in accordance with certain rules. **정육점**: A shop that sells meat such as beef, pork, etc. **정의**: The act of identifying and setting clearly the meaning of a word or object, or such a meaning. **정작**: In a manner that one faces a certain thing actually. **정장**: Formal clothes worn primarily on official occasions. **정지**: The act of suspending what one has been doing. **정직**: The quality of being righteous and straightforward without deceptiveness or airs. **정착**: A new cultural phenomenon, theory, etc., being taken for granted by society. **정책**: A way to accomplish political aims. **정치**: The practice of maintaining the power of a nation and governing it to establish order in society and protect the basic livelihood of people. **정치인**: A person who is responsible for politics. **정치적**: The act of doing something as a political means or method. **정치적**: Doing something as a political means or method. **정형외과**: A field of medical science that treats scars or diseases of the muscle, bone, etc., or the department of the hospital that is in charge of the field. **정확히**: Correctly and certainly. **젖**: A pair of bulging parts on the animal or human chest or abdomen. **제거**: The act of getting rid of something. **제공**: The act of providing or bringing something. **제과점**: A shop that makes and sells cookies, bread, etc. **제대로**: To the original state. **제도**: A norm such as custom, morals and law or the system in a social structure. **제때**: An appropriate time. **제발**: Beg or request with a desperate plea. **제법**: To a higher degree than expected. **제사**: The act of expressing appreciation to a god or the spirit of the deceased by offering them food, or such ritual. **제시**: The act of taking out and presenting an item for inspection or investigation. **제시간**: A pre-determined time. **제안**: The act of presenting one's opinion or suggesting an agenda item. **제약**: The act of limiting something with a condition, or such a condition. **제외**: The act of leaving out someone as a candidate or something in calculation. **제자**: A person who was or is taught by a teacher. **제자리**: A place where one is supposed to be. **제작**: The act of using materials to make a new item or work of art. **제출**: The act of presenting an agenda item, opinion, document, etc. **제품**: The act of making an item by using materials, or such an item. **제한**: The act of determining a certain degree or scope or preventing such degree or scope from being exceeded, or a threshold determined that way. **조**: A figure that is ten thousand times greater than one hundred million. **조**: Being the number that is the product of one hundred million times ten thousand. **조각**: A unit of counting a small part that is taken away or separated from something. **조건**: A demand or opinion that is presented before doing something. **조그맣다**: Being of little importance. **조기**: The practice of doing something earlier than usual. **조깅**: A sport where one runs slowly to remain fit. **조끼**: A sleeveless garment worn over an upper garment. **조르다**: To ask someone for something repeatedly. **조리**: The act of making a dish with ingredients, or such a method or process. **조림**: A word meaning braised dish. **조명**: The act of illuminating a light on the stage or an object of a photograph. **조미료**: An ingredient used to flavor food. **조사**: The act of examining or searching to understand the details of an affair or thing. **조상**: Something that serves as a foundation for its posterity to come about and grow. **조심스럽다**: Having the attitude of being careful in speech, behavior, etc., not to make mistakes or errors. **조언**: The act of helping another by offering counsel or enlightening him/her, or such counsel. **조작**: The act of making something up. **조절**: The act of correcting to a balanced state or adjusting to the circumstances. **조정**: The act of correcting and adjusting in accordance with a certain standard or circumstances. **조화**: The state of being in harmony with each other. **존경**: The act of thinking highly of and revering the respectable character or behavior of a person. **존재**: An entity that stands out, being worthy of attention. **존중**: The act of thinking highly of and valuing an opinion or person. **졸리다**: To feel like sleeping. **졸업생**: A student who has completed all the courses required by a school. **졸업식**: A ritual to celebrate completion of all the courses required by the school. **졸음**: The sensation or state of being sleepy. **좀처럼**: In usual or ordinary circumstances. **좁히다**: To prevent content or range from being far-reaching. **종교**: A cultural system that believes in and obeys a god or supernatural being, serving as a guidance in life or philosophy. **종교적**: Something that belongs or relates to a religion. **종교적**: Belonging or relating to a religion. **종아리**: The muscular back part of the human leg between the knee and ankle. **종이컵**: A disposable cup made of paper. **종일**: The time from morning till evening. **종일**: Continuously from morning till evening. **종종**: Now and then, from time to time. **종합**: The act of putting relevant things together into one. **좌석**: A place or occasion where many people are gathered. **좌우**: The act of being moved or determined by a factor or force. **좌측**: The side that is the same as the west when a person faces north. **좌회전**: The act of a car, etc., making a left turn. **죄**: A wrong act or thought that is against conscience, religious teachings or law. **주간**: The time of one week between Monday and Sunday. **주간**: A bound noun that serves as a unit for counting the number of weeks. **주고받다**: To give and receive reciprocally. **주관적**: The state of having one's own thoughts or perspectives as a standard. **주관적**: Having one's own thoughts or perspectives as a standard. **주름**: A line formed on a crumpled piece of paper or cloth. **주먹**: An amount that can be held in one hand; a small number of things or people. **주목**: The act of looking at something carefully with attention, or such a look. **주민**: A person who lives in a certain area. **주방**: A place where food is made or prepared. **주식**: One of the equal units into which the capital stock of a corporation is divided, or such a securities certificate. **주어지다**: For necessary things, conditions, environment, etc., to be in place or presented. **주요**: The quality of being main and important. **주유소**: An establishment where cars, etc., are refueled with oil. **주의**: The act of telling something as a warning or advice. **주인공**: A person who is at the center of something that receives attention. **주장**: The act of strongly presenting one's opinion or belief, or such opinion or belief. **주저앉다**: To give up and stop in the middle of something since one finds it hard to go on. **주전자**: A container with a small spout and a handle that is used to heat water or liquor in or pour it from. **주제**: In an artwork such as a novel, painting and film, the main idea that the creator wants to express. **주차권**: A ticket that allows a car to be parked at a certain spot. **주차료**: Money paid to park a car at a certain spot. **주택**: A housing unit built individually for habitation by a single family. **죽**: porridge: A dish made from grains such as rice, glutinous rice, etc., that is cooked really soft by boiling for a long time. **죽음**: The act of dying, or the state of being dead. **죽이다**: To spend time, goods, etc., wastefully. **준비물**: An item that is put in place with advance preparations. **줄거리**: The key content of a piece of writing or story. **줄곧**: Constantly without stopping. **줄기**: The main flow of an event, story, etc. **줄넘기**: An exercise where one holds both ends of a rope and swings it in circular motion over one's head and jumps over it, or a rope used in such an exercise. **줄무늬**: A pattern composed of multiple stripes. **줄어들다**: For a volume, quantity or degree to gradually decrease or grow smaller. **중**: A person who lives in a Buddhist temple and practices and promotes the teachings of the Buddha. **중고**: A worn-down item that is old or has already been used. **중고차**: A slightly worn-down car that has been used for a certain period of time. **중국어**: The language spoken by the Chinese people. **중급**: A middle grade. **중단**: The act of stopping or giving up something in the middle. **중독**: The state of being hooked with a thought or item and incapable of sound thinking or judgement. **중반**: The middle stage of a task or a time period. **중부**: The middle part of a region. **중소기업**: A company which is smaller compared to big businesses in terms of financial reserves, the number of employees, sales, size, etc. **중순**: The period from the eleventh to twentieth of a month. **중식**: A food of Chinese origin. **중심지**: A place that serves as the center of a certain work or activity. **중얼거리다**: To keep speaking in such a small and low voice that others cannot hear. **중요성**: An element or quality that is valuable and indispensable. **중형차**: A car of a middle size. **쥐**: A small rodent with a dark gray coat and a long tail that lives in a dark place, often near a human's house. **쥐다**: To earn or have money, wealth, etc. **즉**: No less than. **즉석**: Something that can be done on the spot. **즉시**: At the very time when something is happening. **즐거움**: A feeling of being satisfied and happy. **증가**: An increase in the number or amount of something. **증거**: Something necessary in order to acknowledge the truth at a trial. **증명**: The act of demonstrating that a proposition or judgment is true by using fundamental principles, in mathematics or logic. **증명서**: A document that proves a fact to be true. **증상**: Various conditions that indicate a disorder or disease. **증세**: Various conditions that indicate a disorder or disease. **지각**: An awareness of the outside object or world through one's sensory organs. **지겹다**: Dull and unpleasant due to the repetition of a state or work. **지구**: The third planet from the sun, on which humans live. **지극히**: Very greatly. **지금껏**: Continuously up to this time. **지급**: The act of paying or giving out a set amount of money or supplies. **지나치다**: The degree of something being above a certain standard or limit, very severe. **지난날**: The days gone by or an earlier period of one's life. **지능**: An intellectual adaptability for understanding and coping with an object or situation. **지니다**: To take charge of a task, etc. **지다**: For morning dew, etc., to vanish. **지다**: To owe someone money or a favor, etc. **지도**: An alert given in judo when one performs a banned technique or action. **지도자**: A person who teaches and leads other people. **지름길**: (figurative) A method that reduces the time or energy needed to accomplish something. **지방**: A substance that is present in an organism, which serves as a reserve source of energy, is deposited beneath the skin, in the liver, muscle, etc., and is the cause of obesity. **지불**: The act of giving money for something or paying the price. **지붕**: An object that covers the top of something, mainly vehicles. **지시**: The act of giving a command, or such a command. **지식**: Something gained through study or personal experience. **지식인**: A person who is highly intelligent and refined. **지역**: A piece of land which is divided according to certain characteristics or criteria. **지옥**: (figurative) A deeply distressing, helpless situation. **지원**: An act of helping by providing goods or assistance. **지원**: An act of asking to join an organization or undertake a task. **지위**: A position or place held by a certain object. **지저분하다**: Being improper in one's speech, attitude, or behavior. **지적**: The act of pointing out something that is wrong or needs to be fixed. **지정**: The act by a public organization or institution, person, etc., to indicate someone or something as having special qualifications or value. **지진**: A sudden shaking of the ground resulting from underground movement or volcanic activity. **지출**: The act of spending money for a certain purpose, or such money. **지치다**: To become sick of someone or something because one is mentally tortured by or dissatisfied with him/her or it. **지켜보다**: To study the process of something carefully. **지퍼**: A device made by sewing pieces of metal, plastic, etc., onto a piece of long cloth in a parallel manner that can be interlocked, attaching the cloth to pants, jackets, bags, etc., which are interlocked or separated by the pulling of a slide between them. **지폐**: Money made of paper. **지하실**: A room made under the ground when building a structure. **지혜**: The ability to understand the logic of life and judge between right and wrong. **지혜롭다**: Able to understand the logic of life and judge between right and wrong. **직선**: A line that is straight and not curved. **직장인**: A person who works at the workplace. **직접적**: The state of being related directly, without intermediary conditions, etc. **직접적**: Being related directly, without intermediary conditions, etc. **직진**: The act of moving straight forward. **직후**: Something that comes right after another. **진단**: The act of evaluating the current state of an entity or phenomenon. **진단서**: A certificate giving details of a patient's health after a doctor examines him/her. **진동**: The state of smelling strongly and unpleasantly. **진로**: The direction of one's future. **진리**: True logic, or true reason. **진술**: The act of making a spoken or written statement or fact, given by a person or party related to a certain case at an investigative agency or in court, or such an act. **진실**: A pure and sincere feeling. **진심**: A sincere heart without falsehood. **진정하다**: Honest and sincere. **진지하다**: Careful and earnest in one's attitude or personality. **진찰**: A doctor's act of looking at a patient in order to treat his/her illnesses. **진출**: An act of rushing towards a certain place. **진통제**: A medicine that relieves or stops pain. **진학**: An act of graduating from school and then going on to a higher level of education. **진행**: The act of continuously doing something. **진행자**: A person who hosts an event, show, etc., and leads the program. **질**: The fundamental qualities of a person such as integrity, personality, etc. **질병**: Diseases of the body. **질서**: A state in which people or things are well organized without any confusion, or rules to be kept in order to avoid confusion. **질투**: A feeling of hating or disliking a person better than oneself. **짐승**: (figurative) A person who is very violent or barbarous. **짐작**: An act of estimating a situation, circumstances, etc. **집다**: To indicate one among many. **집단**: A group or organization that consists of two or more people. **집세**: Money paid for using another's house. **집안**: A community consisting of family members who live together, or close relatives. **집어넣다**: To make someone or something go in a place, organization, or range. **집중**: An act of putting all one's energy into one thing. **집중적**: A state in which one's attention, efforts, etc., are given to one thing. **집중적**: One's attention, efforts, etc., being given to one thing. **짓**: (disparaging) A certain behavior or action. **짖다**: (disparaging) To talk in a noisy, boisterous manner. **짙다**: A feeling, trend, etc., being more distinct and powerful than normal. **짚다**: To evaluate and guess the situation. **짜다**: To discuss and agree on a devious plan. **짜다**: To shed tears, or fake cry. **짜증스럽다**: Disliking someone or something because one is tired of and bothered by it. **짝수**: An integer that is evenly divisible by 2 without remainder. **짠맛**: A flavor that tastes like salt. **쪽**: A unit for counting the sides of a book, newspaper, document, etc. **쪽**: A part of an object that is split or broken. **쪽**: A bound noun that serves as a unit for counting the number of split or broken objects. **쫓겨나다**: To be thrown out of a certain place, position, or post. **쫓기다**: To feel anxious as one is deeply obsessed with a certain feeling or emotion. **쫓다**: To get rid of sleepiness, idle thoughts, etc. **쫓아가다**: To go after someone or something in a hurry. **쫓아내다**: To make drowsiness, all kinds of thoughts, etc., go away. **쫓아다니다**: To go around diligently in order to find or attain something. **쫓아오다**: To follow a person or object hurriedly. **쭉**: In the manner of being well-dressed. **찌르다**: For a smell to be so strong that it annoys someone. **찌푸리다**: To wrinkle the facial muscles, brow, etc. **찍다**: To make a hole in a piece of paper, ticket, etc. **찍히다**: (slang) For someone to be disliked by someone else. **찜질**: (slang) An act of whipping with a stick. **찡그리다**: To wrinkle the facial muscles, brow, etc. **찢다**: (figurative) To make one's heart hurt badly. **찢어지다**: (figurative) To feel deeply heartbroken. **차도**: A way for the passage of vehicles. **차라리**: An adverb used to indicate that one prefers a certain option, when other available options are less appealing. **차량**: A train car. **차로**: A part of a roadway for use by a single line of vehicles, designated by a line painted on the road. **차리다**: To calculate and take one's profit. **차림표**: A chart on which the kinds of food that a restaurant offers, as well as the food prices, are written. **차마**: In a state in which one feels compelled to do something out of shame or sympathy. **차별**: An act of distinguishing between two or more things. **차비**: The fare paid when riding a vehicle such as a bus, train, taxi, etc. **차선**: (casual) A part of a roadway for use by a single line of vehicles, designated by a line painted on the road. **차원**: In mathematics, a measure of spatial extent. **차이**: The state of being unlike, or the degree of the unlikeness. **차이점**: A part that is different from others. **차차**: Little by little later on without rushing. **차창**: A window on a train, car, etc. **차츰**: Little by little as time goes by in the change of the state or level of something. **착각**: A perception of an object or fact in a way different from what it is in reality. **찬성**: An act of acknowledging another person's opinion, idea, etc., as meritorious and endorsing it. **참가**: An act of taking part in a meeting, organization, game, event, etc. **참고**: An act of studying or considering something as a source of helpful information. **참기름**: The oil extracted from sesame seeds. **참석**: An act of going to a meeting, gathering, etc., to participate. **참석자**: A person who takes part in a gathering or meeting. **참여**: An act of joining a group to work together. **참으로**: In the manner of being not contrary to a fact or reason. **참조**: An act of comparing and contrasting something with another related thing for reference. **창**: A rectangular area on the screen of a computer monitor that displays an independent work space. **창가**: The area immediately behind a window. **창고**: A place in which goods and merchandise are collected or stored. **창구**: The passage of any negotiation or bargaining made with an external source. **창밖**: Outside of a window. **창작**: An act of making up a story, event, etc., or such a story or event. **창조**: God's act of creating the universe for the first time according to some religious beliefs. **창피**: A feeling of being very ashamed due to a disgraceful event or fact. **찾아내다**: To figure out something one did not know and reveal it. **찾아다니다**: To go here and there in order to find something. **찾아뵙다**: To go and meet an elderly person. **채널**: A transmission path for radio waves distributed to a television or radio broadcaster, radio communications service, etc., according to the frequency level. **채우다**: To twist or turn to prevent from moving or working. **채우다**: To satisfy someone or something. **채택**: An act of choosing among many. **책가방**: A bag designed mainly for students to carry books, notebooks, pencil cases, etc., on the back or shoulder. **책임**: An act of giving a legal disadvantage or restriction to the person who broke a law. **책임감**: A sense that one considers one's task or duty important. **책임자**: A person who is responsible for something, or in the position to be responsible. **책임지다**: To bear an obligation or responsibility or face certain sanctions due to an undesirable situation or outcome. **챔피언**: A person who is superior in skills, etc. **챙기다**: To take good care of someone. **처녀**: The act of doing something or performing an action for the first time. **처리**: An act of causing a chemical, physical effect to achieve something. **처방**: Written instructions stating a formula for preparing medication to treat an illness. **처방전**: Written instructions stating a formula for preparing medication to treat an illness. **처벌**: An act of the state or a related institution giving a penalty to or punishing a criminal for what he/she has done, or such a punishment. **처하다**: For a punishment to be imposed. **천국**: In Christianity, a place that is said to be ruled by God and where Christians go after death. **천둥**: An atmospheric phenomenon that is characterized by a very loud noise and lightning. **천사**: (figurative) A person who is pure and kind. **천장**: The overhead interior surface of a building. **천재**: A person who has great talents or abilities from birth. **천주교**: A religious faith that follows the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church and recognizes its authority. **철**: The suitable period or time. **철**: The ability to distinguish between right and wrong. **철도**: A metal track laid on the ground for trains, streetcars, etc., to run on. **철저히**: In the manner of being complete without flaws because one is very careful about something. **첨부**: An act of attaching a related document to a letter, document, etc. **첫눈**: A feeling or impression from the first encounter. **첫눈**: The first snow of the winter of that year. **첫사랑**: One's first love. **첫인상**: The impression one gets from seeing someone or something for the first time. **청소기**: An electrical appliance used for cleaning that sucks in dust or small pieces of trash. **청하다**: To get to sleep. **청혼**: An act of making a proposal of marriage. **체계**: A set of individual parts organized into a collective entity according to certain rules. **체력**: Physical power or energy. **체면**: One's face or position of dignity in encounting others. **체온**: The temperature of one's body. **체조**: An act of moving one's body to a certain routine, or such an exercise. **체중**: The weight of a person's body. **체크무늬**: A pattern with shapes formed by horizontal and vertical lines that cross each other. **체하다**: To feel heavy on the stomach due to difficulty in digesting food. **체험**: An instance of directly undergoing something, or such an experience. **초가을**: The time when autumn starts. **초겨울**: The time when winter starts. **초급**: The grade or level that is the first, lowest, or easiest . **초기**: The beginning of a certain period. **초록**: Any of a group of colors that lie between yellow and blue, such as the color of grass. **초반**: The first stage of a task or a time period. **초보**: The stage in which one does something, or learns a skill, for the first time. **초보자**: A person who does something, or learns a skill, for the first time. **초봄**: The early phase of spring. **초승달**: The moon rising for several days starting from the first day of a month by the lunar calendar. **초여름**: The time when summer starts. **초저녁**: The time when evening starts. **초점**: The point one adjusts to make sure that the eyes can see a subject most clearly. **초조**: One's feeling of uneasiness because one is frustrated, sorry, or worried. **초청**: An act of asking someone to come to a place as a guest. **초청장**: Something written on which invites someone to something. **촌스럽다**: One's attitude or taste being unsophisticated and looking like that of a country person. **총**: A weapon that fires bullets, using the power of gunpowder. **총**: The word used to indicate the total number of something. **총리**: A civil servant who is the head of ministers, assists the president, and manages national matters. **촬영**: An act of shooting people, objects, scenes, etc., as a photograph or movie. **최고급**: The highest grade in the quality of something. **최대**: The state of a number, quantity, size, etc., of something being the highest, most, or largest. **최대한**: As much as possible under a certain condition. **최선**: All one's heart and power. **최소**: The state of a number or degree of something being the least or lowest. **최소한**: At a minimum, or as little as possible under a certain condition. **최신**: Being the newest, or the most advanced. **최저**: The degree or level of something being the lowest. **최종**: An order that comes last. **최초**: The first of its kind. **추가**: An act of adding something later. **추억**: An act of looking back on a past incident, or such a thought or the incident itself. **추위**: Cold air or cold weather, mostly in winter. **추진**: An act of proceeding with a project for a certain purpose. **추천**: An act of responsibly introducing someone or something that meets a certain condition. **추천서**: A piece of writing that recommends someone for a certain position. **추측**: The state of making a guess based on a certain fact or what is seen. **축구장**: A field where soccer games are played. **축소**: An act of making the number, volume, size, etc., smaller. **축제**: A large-scale event to commemorate or celebrate something. **출국**: An act of crossing a national border and going to another country. **출근길**: The way to one's workplace to do a day's work; or the process of going to work. **출산**: To give birth to a child. **출신**: One's social status or history, decided by the region, school, job, etc. **출연**: An act of appearing on a stage, in a movie, in a television show, etc., and acting a role or playing a musical instrument. **출판**: An act of making pieces of writing, painting, music, etc., into a book or collection and releasing them in public. **출현**: The state of a non-existing or hidden object or phenomenon appearing. **충격**: A very strong stimulation or influence one receives from a sad incident or an unexpected accident, etc. **충격적**: The state of something causing a mental shock. **충격적**: Causing a mental shock. **충고**: An act of talking sincerely to someone to correct his/her fault or mistake, or such a remark. **충돌**: An act of colliding with or confronting each other. **충분히**: In an ample quantity, without shortage. **취업**: The state of obtaining a job and going to work. **취재**: An act of examining and obtaining material for a story for a newspaper or a magazine or a written work. **취하다**: To lose one's heart, as one fell for someone or something too much. **취향**: One's preference for something, because one likes it or enjoys doing it. **측**: A bound noun indicating one of two groups, when dealing with the other. **측면**: A part or case of a certain object or phenomenon. **치다**: For waves, etc., to rise strongly. **치다**: To mark a dot, draw a line, or draw something with a writing brush, pencil, etc. **치다**: To coat the bottom of a frying fan, etc., with some oil, to cook something. **치료법**: A method of treating a disease or wound. **치르다**: To go through a certain incident. **치수**: The value obtained by measuring the lengths of a piece of clothing, a shoe, or a part of one's body, etc. **치우다**: To get rid of food by eating it. **치즈**: Food that is made by taking out the substance rich in protein from milk and drying and fermenting it. **친딸**: The daughter to whom one gave birth. **친아들**: The son to whom one gave birth. **친아버지**: The father who begot a child. **친어머니**: The mother who gave birth to a child. **친언니**: The elder sister to whom the same parents gave birth. **친오빠**: The older brother to whom the same parents gave birth. **친정**: The house a woman lived in before her wedding, where her parents and siblings live. **침**: A liquid formed in the mouth to help with digestion and keep the inside of the mouth from becoming dry. **침묵**: The act of staying still without saying a word, or such state. **칸**: A space enclosed by four sides. **캄캄하다**: Having no knowledge or memory of a fact. **캠페인**: An organized movement targeting the general public, usually to achieve a social or political purpose. **커다랗다**: Very big. **커지다**: To grow big. **커트**: An act of cutting one's hair, or such a hairstyle. **커튼**: A cloth used to hide the stage from the audience in a theater, auditorium, etc. **코너**: A designated page of a newspaper or a designated program of broadcasting, that deals with a regular topic. **코미디**: An incident or behavior which people could make fun of. **코스**: In a sports game such as running, horseracing, swimming, etc., the route an athlete is expected to advance on. **코트**: An outer garment that one wears over other clothes to protect oneself from the cold. **코트**: A place where a game of tennis, basketball, volleyball, etc., is played. **코피**: Blood that flows from the nostrils. **콘도**: A hotel whose units are equipped with basic household items such as cookware, and which is run by selling memberships for the units. **콜록콜록**: A word imitating repeated coughing sounds from deep in one's chest. **콧노래**: A song sung by making nasal sounds, with one's mouth shut. **콩나물**: bean sprouts: A plant grown by sprouting yellow and round beans, and placing and watering the sprouted beans in the shade until the roots grow long; or a herbal dish made from the sprouts. **쾌적하다**: One's feeling being refreshed and good. **쿨쿨**: A word imitating the sound made when one makes a loud, breathing sound in deep sleep, or describing such a scene. **쿵**: A word describing one's strong heart beats from a psychological shock or tension. **크림**: Oily fundamental cosmetics used to smooth one's skin or groom one's hair. **큰길**: A large street on which many people and cars pass. **큰돈**: A large amount of money. **큰딸**: The first-born daughter among two or more daughters. **큰아들**: The firstborn son among two or more sons. **큰아버지**: A word used to refer to or address a brother of one's father. **큰어머니**: A word used to refer to or address the legal wife of one's father, who is not one's mother. **큰일**: A major accident or bad incident that is irrevocable. **큰집**: (prisoners' slang) A prison. **클래식**: Music that depends on the traditional composition and performance methods of the west. **키**: The part of a keyboard instrument such as a piano or harmonium, that makes sounds when pressed with fingers. **키스**: In western culture, an act of pressing one's lips against someone's hand or cheek, as a greeting or as an expression of respect. **타고나다**: To be born with a personality, talent, fate, etc. **타다**: To have good luck, a talent, a destiny, etc., from one’s birth. **타다**: To be easily influenced by the weather or season. **타오르다**: For one's mind to become hot like fire. **타인**: A person who is not oneself. **탁자**: A piece of furniture with a flat top and supporting legs, like a desk, which is used to put objects on. **탄생**: The launching of an institution, organization, a system, etc. **탈출**: An act of getting out of a certain situation, confinement, etc. **탑**: In Buddhism, a pointed architectural structure usually in multiple layers, built to hold the Buddha's remains or to pay tribute to his charitable deeds. **탑승**: An act of getting on an airplane, ship, bus, etc. **탑승객**: A guest who is on board an airplane, ship, car, etc. **태양**: (figurative) A very cherished existence which gives hope. **태우다**: To make someone feel anxious or worried. **태우다**: To have someone use such play equipment as a swing, seesaw, etc. **택하다**: To pick one thing among many things. **탤런트**: An actor or actress appearing on a television show. **터널**: A road that is made through a mountain or under a sea, river, etc., so that trains or cars can pass through. **터뜨리다**: To score in a sports game such as soccer, baseball, etc. **터지다**: (slang) To be spanked or beaten up. **턱**: The organs located on the upper and lower parts of one’s mouth, which are used to pronounce sounds or chew food, etc. **털**: A fine, thread-like thing fluffed on the surface of an object. **털다**: To recover completely from a certain bad incident, feeling, disease, etc., and settle it completely. **텅**: In a state with nothing inside a big object. **테스트**: An act of testing or examining one’s IQ, one’s competency, the performance of a product, etc., or such a test or examination. **테이프**: A narrow and long film used to record sounds, videos, etc. **토**: The sixth day of a week starting from Monday. **토론**: A debate by many people about an issue, while judging what is right and wrong. **토의**: An act of many people going over and sharing thoughts on the details of a certain issue. **토하다**: To express one's feeling or thoughts strongly in one's voice or speech. **통**: For anything and everything. **통**: A unit used to measure the quantity of something by putting it in a bucket. **통계**: An act of adding up a certain number of cases or the number of times, and indicating the result as a number based on a fixed system, or such a thing. **통과**: In an examination, test, audit, etc., the state of something being recognized or passing, by meeting a standard or condition. **통신**: An act of sending material for a news story for a newspaper or magazine; or such material. **통역**: A person who delivers a message between speakers of different languages, making sure that its meaning is conveyed. **통일**: An act of pushing out many thoughts and making one’s mind or heart focus on something. **통증**: A symptom that is painful. **통통하다**: A part of something being swollen, puffy, and protruding. **통하다**: To be communicated with each other using a certain language. **통행**: An act of passing a certain place. **퇴직**: An act of resigning from one's present job or duty. **투자**: An act of spending money, time, or energy in a certain project or business, to gain a profit. **투표**: An act of indicating one's opinion in a ballot and submitting it, to elect someone or to make a decision about something. **특기**: One's special skill or talent that someone else does not have. **특성**: A characteristic of certain things only, which is noticeably different from others. **특수**: The state of being noticeably different from others. **특정**: An act of fixing a specific target, place, etc. **특징**: A trait of something which is noticeable because it is especially different. **틀림없다**: Absolutely correct, not wrong at all. **틀림없이**: Absolutely correctly, without a chance of being wrong. **틈**: The distance between people. **틈**: A bound noun indicating the short time during which one can do something. **틈틈이**: Every time when one has more time. **파**: A vegetable whose long, pointy, cylindrical leaves are empty in the center, and which is often used as garnish or seasoning due to its unique smell and flavor. **파괴**: An act of disrupting order, a relationship, etc., or dismantling an organization to ruin it completely. **파다**: To delete and get rid of a certain part from a document or paper. **파도**: (figurative) A strong psychological stimulation or movement. **파랑**: A blue color or paint. **파마**: An act of curling or straightening hair and keeping it that way for a long time, using a machine or chemical substance; or hair done in such a manner. **파일**: A bunch of data, stored in a certain unit, in the memory device of a computer. **파출소**: A place where dispatched police officers take care of the business of a district within the jurisdiction of a police station. **파트너**: The other spouse as seen in the eyes of one spouse. **판단**: The state of fixing a thought on something, according to a certain logic or standard. **판매**: An act of selling products. **판사**: A judge working at a court of law, except for the supreme court. **팔꿈치**: The outer part of the joint between one's upper and lower arm bone. **패션**: A field related with the ways of coordinating clothes or enhancing the looks of people. **패스트푸드**: Food served instantly after an order is taken, like a hamburger. **팬**: A person who passionately loves a sport, specific art genre, or an athlete, actor, singer, etc. **팬티**: Very short underwear worn on one's lower body. **퍼센트**: A bound noun serving as a unit to express a ratio of something against the whole quantity, which is set as 100. **퍼지다**: For a number to increase a lot. **퍽**: In a degree greatly exceeding normal. **페이지**: A unit for counting the pages of a book, newspaper, document, etc. **펴내다**: To make and release a book, newspaper, etc. **편**: A bound noun used to indicate that someone or something generally belongs to a certain group. **편견**: A thought that is unfair, incorrect, and one-sided. **편식**: An act of selecting and eating only what one likes. **편의**: The state of a situation or condition being easy and good. **편히**: Nicely without any trouble for one's body or mind. **펼쳐지다**: For a thought, dream, plan, etc., to be put into action. **펼치다**: To expand or build up a thought, etc. **평**: An act of evaluating whether something is good or bad, well-done or poorly-done, right or wrong, etc., or such a remark. **평가**: An act of guessing and deciding the price, value, level, etc. of an object, or such a price, value, or level. **평균**: The number which has the middle value in a number, quantity, or degree. **평등**: The state in which the rights, obligations, qualifications, etc., are equal and identical, without discrimination. **평범하다**: Being in an ordinary state, with nothing excellent or special. **평상시**: Ordinary times in which nothing special is happening. **평생**: The time between birth and death. **평화**: The state of being quiet and harmonious, free from conflicts such as war, fighting, etc. **평화롭다**: Looking quiet and harmonious, free from worries or troubles. **폐지**: An act of discontinuing or getting rid of an existing system, law, job, etc. **포근하다**: Weather being windless and warm. **포기**: An act of giving up one's right, qualification, belongings, etc. **포도주**: Liquor made by fermenting the juice of grapes. **포장지**: Paper or plastic paper that is used to wrap or pack something. **포크**: An implement used to eat food by picking it up or laying food on it. **포함**: An act of sending someone or putting something into a certain group or range. **폭넓다**: One’s heart being generous and deep. **폭력**: The power of hurting or pressing down someone fiercely, using a fist, foot, weapon, etc. **폭발**: The state of a certain incident happening suddenly. **폭설**: Snow that falls a lot suddenly. **폭우**: Sudden rain that pours down heavily. **폭포**: A strong gush of water that falls down from the top of a cliff. **표**: An indication or trace of something seen on the outside. **표면**: A part of something that is exposed or visible. **표시**: An act of displaying the content of a notice or an instruction on the surface of something. **표정**: The state of one's face showing one's feeling, thought, etc., or such a face. **표준**: Something generally seen or within an average range. **표준어**: A language that is officially used in a country. **표지**: The paper or leather used to wrap the front and back of a book. **표지판**: A board on which a specific mark is seen to inform the public of a certain fact. **표현**: An act of turning one's feelings, thoughts, etc., into a speech, a piece of writing, a gesture, etc., and showing it. **푸다**: To scoop up the liquid, powder, grains, etc., contained in something and make the content come outside. **풀**: A sticky substance made from rice or wheat that is used as an adhesive or to starch clothes, etc. **풀**: A plant with a tender stem that usually dies after one year. **풀리다**: For ice to melt, or for cold weather to become warm. **풀어지다**: For a certain substance to be added to a liquid and mixed well. **품**: (figurative) A protective environment. **품다**: To have a thought, feeling, etc., in one’s heart. **품질**: The traits and basis of something. **풍기다**: For small fragments such as chaff, dust, etc., to fly; or to cause such fragments to fly away. **풍부하다**: Being sufficient and plenty. **풍선**: A thin, flexible rubber bag which, when inflated with gas, floats in the air. **풍속**: The fashion and habit of a certain past period. **풍습**: Customs and habits of a certain region. **프로**: A person who has the knowledge or skills in a certain field of work and specializes in doing the work. **프린터**: A machine used to print what is on the computer screen on paper. **플라스틱**: Substance whose shape can be changed easily by heating or pressing it. **피로**: Being tired and worn-out physically or mentally, or such a state. **피부**: The outer surface of the flesh that covers the human or animal body. **피서**: To go to a cool place, away from the summer heat. **피하다**: To hide not to be seen or move to another place. **피해**: The act of suffering physical harm, or the loss of property, reputation, etc., or such a harm or loss. **피해자**: A person who suffers harm or damage. **필기**: The act of taking notes on the details of a lecture, speech, address, etc. **필수**: A state of being essential or required. **필수적**: A state of being essential or required. **필수적**: Being essential or a must. **필수품**: The necessities for one's daily life. **필요성**: The quality of being necessary. **핑계**: The act of speaking in an evasive manner to avoid criticism for one's mistake. **하**: The bottom or lowest in a class or level, etc., when divided into top and bottom, or top, middle, and bottom. **하긴**: To tell the truth. **하나하나**: Every single item that constitutes the whole of something. **하나하나**: Every time, with a lot of conditions, excuses, etc. **하느님**: In Christianity, the name that Catholics use to refer to the god they believe in. **하도**: (emphasizing form) Extremely or excessively. **하숙**: The act of staying in another's house, paying for a room and meals; or a house operated in such a manner. **하양**: A white color or paint. **하여튼**: Regardless of how something turns out. **하차**: The act of getting off or out of a vehicle. **하품**: The act of opening one's mouth wide involuntarily, followed by deep breathing when one is sleepy, tired, or full. **하하**: A word imitating the sound or describing the motion of opening one's mouth wide and laughing loudly. **학과**: A division of a field of study for teaching or research in a college, etc. **학력**: The level of education one completes. **학문**: The act of studying a certain field systematically; or such knowledge. **학부모**: Parents whose children are students. **학비**: Expenses for attending and studying in a school. **학습**: To study and learn something. **학용품**: Supplies necessary for studying such as notebooks, pencils, etc. **학자**: A person who knows a field of study very well; or a person who carries out academic research. **한**: resentment; deep sorrow: A feeling of bitterness, deep resentment or sorrow that builds up in one's mind from an unfair or regretful event. **한**: A word used to mean a condition. **한가운데**: The dead center of a certain place or time, situation, etc. **한겨울**: Winter time. **한결**: Much better than before. **한계**: The range or boundary within which something really happens or affects something else. **한국말**: The language used by the Korean people. **한국어**: The language used by the Korean people. **한국인**: A person who has the nationality of Republic of Korea or a descendent of a Korean lineage and spirit. **한국적**: A state of having a unique quality of Korea or being right for Korea. **한국적**: Having a unique quality of Korea or being congruous to Korea. **한꺼번에**: In one stroke, or all at the same time. **한낮**: The middle of the day, which is the time right before or after noon. **한눈**: The range that one can see at a time with one's eyes. **한동안**: A long duration of time. **한둘**: A number that is about one or two. **한때**: The same time. **한때**: For a certain short period of time. **한마디**: Short and simple words. **한문**: A text written in hanja, which is Chinese characters used in Korea. **한밤중**: (figurative) A state of having no knowledge about a certain event. **한순간**: A very short period of time **한숨**: A long breath that a person takes when he/she is relieved after feeling worried or nervous. **한여름**: The time in summer when the heat is most severe. **한자**: Chinese unique characters created in China and being used today in the country. **한쪽**: One part of something or one direction. **한참**: A lapse of a fairly long time. **한창**: The time at which a certain event is at the peak of its activity ; or the time at which a certain state is at its highest. **한창**: The state of a certain event being at the peak of its activity ; or the state a certain state being at its highest. **한층**: More than a certain degree. **한편**: In describing two different situations, a word used to introduce one statement followed by the other statement. **할부**: An act of paying off a debt in successive payments. **할인점**: A store that specializes in selling goods at a reduction from the original price. **함부로**: Recklessly without being careful or thinking deeply. **합격**: The state of being fit for a given condition. **합격자**: A person who attains a certain qualification or status by passing a test, inspection, screening, etc. **합계**: The act of adding numbers, or the added value. **합리적**: A state of being in accordance with logic or reason. **합리적**: In accordance with logic or reason. **합의**: A state of having the same opinion as someone else; or such an opinion. **합치다**: To put many things together to form one entity. **합하다**: To add two or more numbers or formulas. **항공료**: Money paid for using a plane, etc. **항의**: A state in which a country officially notifies another of its objection to the way a certain matter is being handled, using a formal document or statement; or the occurrence of such an event. **해**: An act of doing something unhelpful or harmful; or such a thing. **해결**: An act of handling and finishing a case, problem, or task, etc., successfully. **해결책**: A method for handling and finishing an event, problem, or task, etc., successfully. **해내다**: To carry out a task successfully or get a job done. **해당**: A state of being just right for a certain range or condition, etc. **해돋이**: The time when the sun is coming up over the horizon, or such a phenomenon. **해롭다**: Doing harm without any benefits. **해물**: All the marine animals and plants consumed by man. **해방**: An event in which Korea was liberated from Japanese imperialism on August 15, 1945. **해변**: A place where sea and land meet, or an area near such a place. **해산물**: Marine animals and plants consumed by man. **해석**: An act of examining and understanding the contents of an object or action, etc., or the output of such an act. **해설**: An act of explaining a tricky or complex problem or case to another person in terms easily understandable, or such a text or book. **해소**: An act of breaking up a certain group or organization and making it disappear. **해수욕장**: A beach equipped with facilities to swim and play in the sea. **해안**: A place where sea and land meet **해치다**: To kill someone or to injure him/her. **핵심**: The central or most important part of something. **핸드백**: A small bag carried by a woman in one hand or over the shoulder. **햇볕**: An effect caused by the beating sun. **햇살**: The light the sun radiates. **행사**: An act of putting a certain right into practice. **행사장**: A place where an event is held. **행운**: Luck or good fortune. **행위**: An act done with an intention or will. **행정**: A government's act of ruling its people according to laws. **행하다**: To do a certain task. **향**: Good smell. **향기**: Good smell. **향상**: A state in which an ability, level, skill, etc., gets better; or an act of making such a thing get better. **향수**: Scented liquid that one applies over the body or clothing, etc. **향하다**: To make someone look in a certain direction. **허가**: The act of allowing someone to perform certain acts forbidden by law, only in certain special cases. **허락**: The act of accepting another's request. **허리띠**: A strap worn around the waist to prevent the pants, etc., from falling down. **허벅지**: The thick-fleshy part of the inside the thigh. **허용**: Usually in a game, an act of losing by failing to defend against an attack, etc.; or such an act. **허허**: A word imitating the sound or describing the motion of laughing loudly with a round, open mouth. **헌**: Being so old as to become in a poor condition and wornout. **험하다**: Extremely sad and terrible. **헤매다**: To suffer because one fails to get out of a difficult situation. **헤아리다**: To think in consideration of another thing or judge by making a guess. **헤엄치다**: For a person or fish to move his/her arms and legs or its fins to go forward in the water. **현관**: The entrance where there is a door to a building. **현대**: The period from the time when its idea is considered to be the same as today's to the present, as divided by historical studies. **현대인**: People living in modern times with modern lifestyle and way of thinking. **현대적**: A state of being suitable for modern times or having the quality of the era. **현대적**: Being suitable for modern times or having the quality of the era. **현상**: An object's form or state perceivable by a human being. **현실**: A fact or state that exists in reality. **현실적**: A state of attaching the utmost importance to a profit or benefit that can be actually gained. **현실적**: Attaching the utmost importance to a profit or benefit that can be actually gained. **현장**: A place where a certain activity is taking place or a task is in progress. **협력**: An act of joining forces to help each other. **협조**: An act of giving support to and helping another. **형님**: A word used by an old woman to refer to or address another female older than herself in a friendly manner. **형성**: A state of developing or acquiring a certain character or form. **형식**: A certain procedure or mode necessary for doing a task; or a common form shared by many objects. **형태**: A certain form taken by an object that comprises a structure or whole. **형편**: The economic situation or condition of one's life. **혜택**: Help or benefit from an institution or environment, or another person. **호감**: A good feeling toward a certain object. **호기심**: A state of liking something new and amazing or a desire to learn something one does not know. **호두**: The fruit of a walnut with a savory-flavored, fatty flesh wrapped in a hard shell. **호박**: (teasing) An ugly wowan. **호실**: A room which a certain number is assigned to. **호주머니**: A part made of cloth, etc., that is attached to a piece of garment for keeping money, things, etc., in. **호흡**: The act by a living organism of inhaling oxygen and exhaling carbon dioxide, or such a process. **혹은**: Sometimes. **혼나다**: To be scolded severely or punished. **혼내다**: To scold someone harshly or punish him/her. **홀수**: An integer that leaves a remainder of 1 when divided by 2. **홈페이지**: A document that can be viewed by others through the Internet. **홍보**: An act of promoting a product, service, program, etc., widely to a certain target; or such a promotion. **홍수**: (figurative) A state in which people or things pour out in large numbers at the same time. **화**: The second day of a week that starts from Monday. **화면**: A video image appearing on the movie screen or television; or the screen that contains such an image. **화분**: A container filled with soil for growing a flower or plant. **화장**: The act of making oneself look more beautiful by applying cosmetics over the face. **화장대**: A mirrored piece of funiture for putting on make-up, where one can place or store one's cosmetics. **화장지**: A thin sheet of paper used for wiping off something dirty. **화재**: A calamity or disaster in which houses or possessions are burnt. **화제**: Material or content worth making into a story. **화창하다**: The weather being clear and warm and the wind being gentle. **화폐**: A coin or bill that is a standard for evaluating the value of a product when selling and buying, or exchanging it for another product, and is given and taken for such an exchange. **화해**: An act of stopping fighting and letting go of negative feelings toward another. **확**: A word describing something that is tied up or shut closed suddenly untying or opening powerfully. **확대**: An act of making the shape or size, etc., bigger than it was. **확보**: An act of making sure to possess something. **확산**: A phenomenon in which substances with different levels of concentrations gradually reach the same level of concetration over time when they are mixed. **확신**: An act of believeing firmly in something; or such a state of mind. **확실하다**: Being absolutely true or being certain of something. **확실히**: In the manner of being absolutely true or being certain of something. **확인**: An act of finding out if something is true or admitting that it is true. **확장**: An act of increasing the size or scope of a facility, business, force, etc., to make it larger. **환경**: The state of surroundings in which a person is living. **환불**: An act of giving back money that has been paid. **환상**: A vain thought that is unlikely or impossible to come true in reality. **환상적**: A state in which a thought, etc., is considered empty, unlikely or impossible to come true in reality. **환상적**: A thought, etc., being considered unrealistic, unlikely or impossible to come true in reality. **환승역**: A subway or rail station where one can transfer to another line. **환영회**: A gathering arranged for greeting the arrival of someone gladly and cordially. **환율**: In economics, the rate at which the currency of one country is changed into that of another country. **환하다**: Feeling tingly, clean, and refreshed in one's mouth **활기**: A lively spirit. **활동**: An act of striving to achieve a good result in a certain task. **활동적**: A state of striving to achieve a good result in a certain task. **활동적**: Striving to achieve a good result in a certain task. **활발하다**: Being characterized by vigorous activity or frequent occurrence of a event. **활발히**: In the manner of doing a certain task vigorously or making a certain event occur frequently. **활용**: An act of slightly changing the form of a predicate to indicate grammatical relations. **활짝**: A word describing the state of one's face looking bright or beaming with smiles. **회**: Thinly sliced meat or fish that is consumed raw. **회담**: A state in which interested parties meet and discuss a certain matter; or such a discussion. **회복**: An act of taking back what one has lost or restoring what has been damaged to its original state. **회비**: Money paid by members of an association to be spent on its activities. **회식**: A state in which people in a certain group or organization dine out together; or such a meeting. **회의실**: A room where people gather and discuss a topic, issue, etc. **회장**: A person in the highest position, who represents and is responsible for a company; or a person who holds such a position. **회화**: An act of talking with another in foreign language; or such a talk. **횟수**: The number of repeated occurrences of an event, etc. **효과**: An act of creating an atmosphere fit for a certain scene using sounds, lights, computer graphics, etc., in a movie or play. **효과적**: A state of achieving a good result from doing something. **효과적**: Achieving a good result from doing something. **효도**: A state of respecting and taking care of one's parents with all one's heart. **효율적**: A state in which an outcome turns out to be satisfactory compared to one's efforts. **효율적**: An outcome turning out to be satisfactory compared to one's efforts. **효자**: A son who respects and takes good care of his parents. **후반**: The latter half of a period, match, etc., when divided into two. **후보**: A state of being qualified to replace another when there is a vacant position; or such a person. **후식**: A serving of simple food after a meal. **후추**: A black, round-shaped fruit used usually as seasoning for food because of its spicy taste and smell. **후회**: An act of realizing that what one did was wrong and reprimanding oneself for having done it. **후회스럽다**: Realizing that what one did was wrong and reprimanding oneself for having done it. **훈련**: An act of teaching another to help him/her learn a skill, task, etc. **훔치다**: To take another person's belongings secretly. **휴가철**: The period in which many people go on a vacation. **휴대**: A state of carrying an object, or holding it in hand. **휴식**: An act of stopping what one was doing and taking a brief rest. **휴양지**: A place suitable for taking care of one's health by relaxing. **휴학**: An act of taking a break from school during a certain period of time. **흉내**: An act of copying the words, sounds, behavior, etc., of another person or animals. **흐름**: A phenomenon that proceeds toward a certain direction. **흑백**: In a game of Go, a compound noun for black and white stones; or two players who hold black and white stones. **흔들리다**: For one's heart to be moved or for one's will to weaken. **흔적**: A mark or trace left after an object or phenomenon disappears or passes by. **흔하다**: Something being widely available or easy to obtain because it comes in larger quantity or occurs frequently. **흔히**: More often than usual. **흘러가다**: pass: For time or years to go by. **흘러나오다**: For a certain rumor or information to be circulated and spread. **흘러내리다**: For something tied or fastened to slide down and fall. **흙**: Substance covering the surface of the Earth, consisting of small grains. **흡수**: An act of making a person or thing come into a certain place. **흥미**: Fun, amusement, or entertainment that captivates one's mind. **흥미롭다**: Arousing interest. **흥분**: A strong surge of an emotion, being exposed to a certain stimulation; or the emotion. **흩어지다**: For something stuck together to fall apart separately or spread out in all directions. **희다**: Bright and clear like the color of snow or milk. **희생**: The state of losing one's life in a sad and pitiful manner due to an accident, natural disaster, etc. **힘껏**: Exerting all one's power; or doing one's best. **힘쓰다**: To devote oneself and contribute to doing something. **힘없이**: In a state of lacking power or authority, etc. **힘차다**: Lively and energetic.