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Korean vocabulary list:

tradition & folklore

  • 가면극
    –masque; mask play
  • 가야금
    –gayageum
  • 갈다
    –rub an ink stick
  • 개
    –A case in yunnori, a traditional Korean game, in which two of four sticks that act as the dice are facing up, resulting in two moves forward
  • 걸
    –A case in yunnori, a traditional Korean game, in which three of four sticks that act as the dice are facing up, resulting in three moves forward
  • 격언
    –maxim; proverb; saying; adage; aphorism
  • 계승
    –inheritance
  • 구형
    –old model; old style
  • 도
    –do
  • 따다
    –name after
  • 띠
    –Chinese zodiac sign: A word that shows a person's year of birth with the names of twelve animals
  • 설날
    –Seollal; Lunar New Year
  • 시조
    –Traditional Korean three-verse poetry, which was developed from the end of the Goryeo Dynasty and and was used extensively in the Joseon Dynasty
  • 여신
    –goddess; female deity
  • 유대인
    –Jew; Jewish people
  • 유물
    –relic; remains; antiquity
  • 전통
    –tradition; heritage
  • 전통적
    –traditional
  • 전통적
    –being traditional
  • 제일
    –day of ancestral rite
  • 추석
    –Chuseok
  • 타령
    –traditional ballad
  • 풍
    –manners
  • 함
    –A box used for a traditional Korean wedding, containing fabrics and a letter of proposal, sent by the bridegroom to the bride's family the day before the wedding
  • 향
    –incense
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