Korean vocabulary list:
body functions & processes
- 가다–be affected
- 가스–gas; fart
- 갈다–grind one's teeth
- 갈라지다–sound cracking
- 감각–sense; sensation; feeling
- 감성–sensitivity; sensibility
- 감촉–touch; feel
- 강하–drop; descent; fall
- 갖다–bear
- 걸리다–trip; stumble
- 검버섯–age spot; liver spot
- 고갈–extreme thirst
- 고름–pus
- 고통–pain
- 고프다–hungry
- 귀–hearing ability
- 균형–balance
- 기름–oil
- 기상–getting up
- 기아–hunger
- 기운–effect; influence
- 기함–becoming unconscious
- 긴장–tension
- 긴장하다–tense up; be strained
- 김–warm breath
- 깨다–wake up
- 깨어나다–wake up; come to one's senses
- 끓다–rumble; growl; rattle
- 끙끙거리다–moan; groan
- 끙끙대다–moan; groan
- 끙끙하다–moan; groan
- 나가다–become unconscious
- 나다–be born; run; flow
- 나오다–come out; burst into
- 난자–egg; ovum
- 낮잠–nap; napping
- 낳다–give birth; deliver
- 내–smell; scent
- 내다–make; release; come out
- 넘어가다–stop; cease to; pass; go down
- 넘어오다–come up; throw up; rise
- 놀다–play; move
- 놀라다–convulse
- 뇌파–brain wave
- 눈–seeing ability
- 눈곱–sleep; eye mucus
- 눈물–tear
- 느끼다–feel
- 느끼다–be out of breath; pant
- 늦잠–oversleeping; late rising
- 달다–blush; flush
- 담–phlegm
- 대변–feces; excrements; stools
- 도취–intoxication
- 돋다–improve
- 돌기–bump; swelling
- 돌다–form
- 돌아가다–be dizzy; feel giddy
- 동맥–artery
- 두근거리다–throb; palpitate; beat
- 뒤–faecal matter
- 듣다–hear
- 들다–fall; become; grow; get; recover; regain; bear
- 들어서다–be conceived
- 들이마시다–breathe in; inhale
- 딱–broad
- 땀–sweat
- 땀투성이–being full of sweat
- 때–dirt
- 떨리다–tremble; be shaken
- 떼다–take a step; walk
- 똥–feces; excrement
- 똥오줌–feces and urine
- 뛰다–beat; throb; pulsate
- 마르다–be thirsty; lose weight; become thin
- 마시다–drink; breathe in
- 만세–long life
- 말–speech; words
- 맛–taste
- 맡다–smell; sniff
- 맥–pulse
- 머금다–hold
- 먹다–inhale; breathe in; suck in; take in; absorb; grow; become; turn
- 메다–choke up
- 면역–immunity; being immune
- 면역력–immunity
- 명–life; living
- 목–voice; throat
- 목마르다–thirsty
- 목소리–voice
- 목숨–life
- 목쉬다–get hoarse
- 목청–voice
- 목청껏–at the top of one's voice; at the top of one's lungs
- 무겁다–heavy
- 무럭무럭–rapidly
- 물다–hold with one's lips or teeth; bite; hold in one's mouth
- 물어뜯다–bite; chew
- 미각–taste; palate
- 박히다–have; get
- 발기–erection
- 발기하다–erect
- 발달–development; growth
- 발달되다–be developed; be grown
- 발자국–footprint; footmark
- 발자취–footprint; trace
- 발짓–moving a foot
- 밝히다–stay up
- 밤눈–night vision
- 밤새다–stay up
- 밤잠–night sleep
- 밥맛–appetite
- 방–bang
- 배고프다–hungry
- 배곯다–be hungry; starve
- 배다–bear; conceive; get pregnant; bulge; lump
- 배부르다–full; (belly) big
- 버티다–balance; not fall; hold
- 변–feces; stool
- 별–spots
- 보다–relieve, do
- 볼일–relieve oneself
- 부들부들–tremblingly; quiveringly
- 부들부들하다–tremble; shiver
- 부르다–full; (belly) big
- 부패–decomposition
- 불능–impotence; sterility
- 불다–blow; whistle; breathe out; let out; exhale; play
- 불면–sleeplessness
- 붙다–be maintained
- 빈속–empty stomach
- 빙–dizzily; giddily
- 빙빙–dizzily; giddily
- 빠지다–lapse into
- 빠지다–become thin; grow slim
- 빨아들이다–suck in; inhale; soak in
- 삥–dizzily; giddily
- 사–death
- 사망–death; passing away; being killed
- 사정–ejaculation
- 살다–be alive
- 살아오다–live
- 삶–living
- 새벽잠–sleeping at dawn
- 새우다–stay up all night
- 생–living
- 생리–physiology; menstruation
- 생명–life
- 생시–being awake
- 생육–birth; growth
- 생전–life
- 생존–survival
- 서다–be conceived; become erect; go up
- 선잠–light sleep; catnap
- 섭취–intake; ingestion
- 섭취되다–be taken in; be ingested
- 성벽–disposition toward sexual desire
- 성인–adult; grown-up
- 성장기–time for full growth
- 성장하다–grow
- 세다–turn pale
- 세우다–To make the result of congested blood vessels appear on a part of one’s body
- 소름–goosebump
- 소리–voice
- 소변–urine
- 손대다–touch; make physical contact; lay one's hands on
- 손아귀–grip; clutch
- 송장–corpse; body; dead body
- 수면–sleep
- 수정–fertilization; insemination
- 숨–breath
- 숨결–state of breathing
- 숨구멍–fontanelle; soft spot
- 숨소리–sound of breathing
- 쉬다–be hoarse
- 쉬다–breathe
- 시각–sight; vision
- 시계–visibility
- 시원하다–refreshed
- 식은땀–cold sweat
- 신물–acid reflux
- 싸다–discharge
- 쑥–A word describing the motion of something sinking in deeply or shooting out so that it protrudes
- 쓰러지다–break down; have a breakdown
- 씨–sperm
- 아프다–hurting; aching
- 안면–sound sleep; comfortable sleep
- 어리다–gather in; come to
- 에너지–energy; power
- 영양–nutrition; nutrient
- 오르다–gain; become fatter
- 오줌–urine
- 올라오다–throw up
- 외침–crying out; shout
- 월경–menstruation
- 유전–heredity
- 유전되다–be hereditary
- 음성–voice
- 이루다–get sleep
- 이슬–tears; cervical mucus
- 이완–relaxation
- 익다–adapted
- 익다–turn; be tanned
- 일–(euphemism) Urination and defecation, or sexual relationship between a man and a woman
- 일어나다–get up; be heard
- 임신–pregnancy
- 자극–stimulus; spur; excitement
- 자극되다–be stimulated
- 자극하다–stimulate; give a stimulus to
- 잠–sleep
- 잠결–being half asleep; while asleep
- 잠들다–fall asleep; sink into a sleep
- 잠자다–sleep; have a sleep
- 잡히다–be formed
- 장수–longevity
- 재생–reproduction
- 적화–turning red
- 전기–tingle
- 정자–sperm
- 젖–milk; breast milk
- 젖다–be teary
- 조기–early morning
- 주름–wrinkle
- 주름살–wrinkle
- 죽죽–profusely; repeatedly
- 중엽–middle
- 쥐–cramp
- 지각–perception; sensation
- 진땀–cold sweat
- 질리다–turn pale
- 짜릿하다–tingling
- 쭉쭉–profusely; repeatedly
- 찢다–be ear-splitting
- 청각–sense of hearing
- 촉각–sense of touch; tactile sensation
- 출산–childbirth; delivery; labor
- 출생–birth
- 치다–make
- 침–saliva
- 켜다–guzzle; gulp; drink water a lot
- 크다–grow up; become an adult
- 타다–slide
- 타다–be easily stimulated; feel easily; be influenced easily
- 탄생–birth
- 탈바꿈–metamorphosis
- 태동–fetal movement
- 풀다–blow
- 풀어지다–go blank
- 피땀–blood and sweat
- 핏덩이–blood clot; newborn
- 핏발–being bloodshot; being congested
- 핑–dizzily; giddily
- 해산–delivery; childbirth
- 헛디디다–lose one's footing; miss one's step; slip down
- 호흡–breathing; breath
- 홑몸–not being pregnant; not expecting a baby
- 확–suddenly; abruptly
- 활동–activity; movement
- 후각–sense of smell
- 흉–scar
- 흐르다–flow; run
- 흡수–absorption; intake
- 흡입–suction; inhalation; intake
- 힘–strength; power