Korean-English Dictionary

Chinese characters (Hanja)

And their use in Korean.

—one, the number 1, first

—to pierce through

—an ancient punctuation mark

—diagonal stroke, slanting stroke

—The second of the ten heavenly stems (天干 (tiāngān))

—a backward hook

—two, the number 2, second

—pig-year head; top of the character 亥

—human, person

—a virtuous/good person

—to enter, to let in, to put in

—eight, the number 8, the eighth in order

—city outskirts, suburbs

—to cover, to conceal

—ice, oil; to congeal/freeze

—small table, low bench (안석)

—to open the mouth, to gape

—sword, knife, sharp-edged tool

—power, force, strength

—to wrap, to embrace

—dagger; spoon

—box, container, case

—to cover, to conceal

—ten, the number 10, tenth

—fortune-telling, divination

—military authorization seals; kneeling person

—cliff; habitable cave on a cliff, slope

—pictograph created based on the shape of surrounding and confining an object to make it one's own.

—again, and, also

—mouth; opening, orifice

—to surround, enclosure; country; something that surrounds

—scholar; gentleman; soldier

—to come after, to follow behind, to hesitate

—to walk slowly, slow steps

—evening, dusk; right foot

—large, big, great

—female, woman; daughter

—son; child, baby; male; person; you (second-person pronoun); fruit, seed

—joint; inch (a unit of measurement); small/little; degree of kinship

—small, little; smallness, small things

—lame; crippled; person with a leg disability

—corpse, dead body; a living person who represents the dead person during a rite

—left hand; to sprout

—mountain; grave

—a stream where water flows, river, brook

—master craftsman, master artisan; tool; to make, to build

—self, ego; body

—towel; cloth

—shield; dry; to violate; to interfere

—tiny, minute, young, or something like that

—house built to depend on a cliff; wide

—to stride, going a long distance

—to hold up with both hands

—a stake, a wooden post

—bow (for shooting arrows)

—pig head/snout

—to walk a little, to take small steps

—heart, mind; center, core

—dagger-axe; spear (an ancient Chinese weapon similar to a halberd)

—door, house number; house, home

—to support, to bear, to sustain; to calculate; to branch off

—to hit, strike

—script, writing, letter

—measuring vessel; horse

—square; direction

—none, not exist

—to say, to speak

—tree; wood, wooden

—yawn; deficiency

—to stop, to cease, to halt

—bare bones, the bones remaining after the meat has been cut away; bad

—shu (an ancient Chinese weapon), a spear without a blade, a club

—do not, don't, do not do, do not eat

—to compare; to be side by side; to cling; to conspire; to connect

—lineage; surname; clan

—energy; air; vital force

—father; elder member of the family

—to interweave, to cross

—a piece of split wood

—thin/small piece; flake; fragment

—molar; cheek tooth, wisdom tooth

—deep; profound; dark; mysterious

—bead jade, bead; precious thing, beautiful thing, etc

—melon; gourd; squash

—to be born, to live; raw, uncooked

—to use, to employ

—field, farm field

—a pair; the leg below the knee

—to lean on while sick

—to be reverse; to spread or raise the feet outward

—white, clean, clear; to explain, to report

—spear, lance

—to show, to display, to demonstrate, to reveal, to indicate, to exhibit

—animal footprint

—grain; cereal

—to stand; to make erect; to establish

—thin silk; fine thread

—level; grade; class/rank

—feather, wing

—to connect, to link

—handle of plow

—writing brush, paint brush

—minister, subject, one who serves

—self, oneself

—to reach; to arrive

—to be opposed to; to be contrary to; to deviate from; to be disordered; to go astray

—one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦

—tiger; pattern of tiger fur

—to go, to walk, to perform; rank; lineage (항렬)

—clothes, clothing; garment

—to cover, something that covers an object

—to see, to view, to look; to behold, to pay respects

—word, speech

—valley, gorge

—bean, soybean

—clam, shell, shellfish

—red; to be red

—cart, vehicle, wagon; wheele

—spicy, hot; bitter hardship

—star shin, time shin; name of a star

—to walk slowly, to go slowly

—town, district

—chicken, rooster

—to distinguish; to separate; to discriminate

—village; hometown; neighbor

—metal; iron; gold; amount of money

—long; leader, chief, master, person in authority; adult; to grow

—gate, door; gateway, portal

—to reach; to extend to

—blue, azure, green; young; calm, serene

—face; countenance; side; aspect

—leather; animal hide

—leather, tanned leather

—chive, garlic chives

—sound, noise

—flying, to fly

—meal, food, rice; to eat

—fragrance; perfume; incense

—high, tall; eminent

—to hang down; drooping of long hair

—to fight, to struggle

—kind of ritual liquor

—ancient Chinese cooking vessel

—ghost, spirit

—barley, wheat; oats

—hemp; jute; flax

—yellow; a surname

—to sew; embroider; stitch fabric or clothing with a needle

—narrow-mouthed toad (a kind of frog)

—ding, cauldron; tripod pot

—nose; nasal; rhino-

—orderly, aligned; even

—dragon, mireu; emperor

—tortoise, turtle; to crack, to split; place name

—yue (a Chinese flute)