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๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ท Korean Vocabulary

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๐Ÿถ ๊ฐœ gae Dog โ€” a friendly animal that says meong. ๐Ÿข ๊ฑฐ๋ถ์ด geobugi Turtle โ€” a slow animal with a shell. ๐Ÿฑ ๊ณ ์–‘์ด goyangi Cat โ€” a small furry animal that says yaโ€ฆ ๐Ÿฆ‹ ๋‚˜๋น„ nabi Butterfly โ€” a pretty insect with colourโ€ฆ ๐ŸŸ ๋ฌผ๊ณ ๊ธฐ mulgogi Fish โ€” an animal that swims in water. ๐Ÿฆ ์ƒˆ sae Bird โ€” an animal with feathers that canโ€ฆ ๐Ÿต ์›์ˆญ์ด wonsungi Monkey โ€” a clever animal that climbs trโ€ฆ ๐Ÿ˜ ์ฝ”๋ผ๋ฆฌ kokkiri Elephant โ€” a very big animal with a lonโ€ฆ ๐Ÿฐ ํ† ๋ผ tokki Rabbit โ€” a soft animal with long ears. ๐Ÿฏ ํ˜ธ๋ž‘์ด horangi Tiger โ€” a big cat with stripes. ๐Ÿฅš ๊ณ„๋ž€ gyeran Egg โ€” a food with a shell that hens lay. ๐Ÿฅฌ ๊น€์น˜ kimchi Kimchi โ€” spicy fermented cabbage, Koreaโ€ฆ ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฌ SG ๐Ÿ’ง ๋ฌผ mul Water โ€” the clear drink that keeps us aโ€ฆ ๐ŸŒ ๋ฐ”๋‚˜๋‚˜ banana Banana โ€” a long yellow fruit you peel. ๐Ÿš ๋ฐฅ bap Rice โ€” the small white grains we eat evโ€ฆ ๐Ÿฅฉ ๋ถˆ๊ณ ๊ธฐ bulgogi Bulgogi โ€” sweet grilled beef, a Koreanโ€ฆ ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฌ SG ๐Ÿž ๋นต ppang Bread โ€” soft food you can make toast frโ€ฆ ๐ŸŽ ์‚ฌ๊ณผ sagwa Apple โ€” a round red or green fruit. ๐Ÿฅ› ์šฐ์œ  uyu Milk โ€” the white drink that makes you sโ€ฆ ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€๐Ÿ‘ง ๊ฐ€์กฑ gajok Family โ€” the people you live with and lโ€ฆ ๐Ÿ‘ถ ๋™์ƒ dongsaeng Younger brother or sister. ๐Ÿ‘จ ์•„๋น  appa Father โ€” the man who loves and cares foโ€ฆ ๐Ÿ‘ง ์–ธ๋‹ˆ eonni Older sister (said by a girl). ๐Ÿ‘ฉ ์—„๋งˆ eomma Mother โ€” the lady who loves and cares fโ€ฆ ๐Ÿ‘ฆ ์˜ค๋น  oppa Older brother (said by a girl). ๐Ÿ‘ต ํ• ๋จธ๋‹ˆ halmeoni Grandmother. ๐Ÿ‘ด ํ• ์•„๋ฒ„์ง€ harabeoji Grandfather. ๐Ÿ˜จ ๋ฌด์„ญ๋‹ค museopda Afraid โ€” the feeling when something migโ€ฆ ๐Ÿ˜ข ์Šฌํ”„๋‹ค seulpeuda Sad โ€” the feeling when you want to cryโ€ฆ ๐Ÿ˜Š ํ–‰๋ณตํ•˜๋‹ค haengbokhada Happy โ€” the feeling when you smile andโ€ฆ ๐ŸŽค ๋…ธ๋ž˜ํ•˜๋‹ค noraehada Sing โ€” to make music with your voice. ๐Ÿงธ ๋†€๋‹ค nolda Play โ€” to have fun with toys and games. ๐Ÿƒ ๋‹ฌ๋ฆฌ๋‹ค dallida Run โ€” to move very fast on your feet. ๐Ÿฅค ๋งˆ์‹œ๋‹ค masida Drink โ€” to take water or juice into youโ€ฆ ๐Ÿฝ๏ธ ๋จน๋‹ค meokda Eat โ€” to put food in your mouth. โœ๏ธ ์“ฐ๋‹ค sseuda Write โ€” to make words with a pen or penโ€ฆ ๐Ÿ“– ์ฝ๋‹ค ikda Read โ€” to look at words and understandโ€ฆ ๐Ÿ˜ด ์ž๋‹ค jada Sleep โ€” to close your eyes and rest atโ€ฆ ๐ŸŽ’ ๊ฐ€๋ฐฉ gabang Bag โ€” something you carry your books in. ๐Ÿง‘โ€๐Ÿซ ์„ ์ƒ๋‹˜ seonsaengnim Teacher โ€” the person who helps you learโ€ฆ โœ๏ธ ์—ฐํ•„ yeonpil Pencil โ€” something you write with. ๐Ÿ“– ์ฑ… chaek Book โ€” something you read, full of storโ€ฆ ๐Ÿซ ํ•™๊ต hakgyo School โ€” the place where you learn. ๐Ÿช ๊ฐ€๊ฒŒ gage Shop โ€” a small place where you buy thinโ€ฆ ๐ŸŒณ ๊ณต์› gongwon Park โ€” a green place to play and rest. ๐Ÿ™๏ธ ๋„์‹œ dosi City โ€” a big busy place with many buildโ€ฆ ๐ŸŽถ ํ•œ๋ฅ˜ hallyu Hallyu โ€” the Korean Wave of music, dramโ€ฆ ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฌ SG ๐ŸŒธ ๊ฝƒ kkot Flower โ€” the pretty colourful part of aโ€ฆ ๐ŸŒณ ๋‚˜๋ฌด namu Tree โ€” a tall plant with a trunk and leโ€ฆ ๐ŸŒ™ ๋‹ฌ dal Moon โ€” the big light in the night sky. ๐ŸŒŠ ๋ฐ”๋‹ค bada Sea โ€” the very big salty water around tโ€ฆ โญ ๋ณ„ byeol Star โ€” a tiny point of light in the nigโ€ฆ ๐ŸŒง๏ธ ๋น„ bi Rain โ€” water that falls from the clouds. โ˜€๏ธ ํ•ด hae Sun โ€” the bright yellow star in our sky. ๐Ÿšช ๋ฌธ mun Door โ€” the thing you open to go in or oโ€ฆ ๐Ÿช‘ ์˜์ž uija Chair โ€” a seat with a back. ๐Ÿ  ์ง‘ jip House โ€” the place where you live. ๐Ÿชต ํƒ์ž takja Table โ€” a flat place to work and eat. ๐Ÿ‘๏ธ ๋ˆˆ nun Eye โ€” the part of you that sees. ๐Ÿฆถ ๋ฐœ bal Foot โ€” the part of you that you stand oโ€ฆ โœ‹ ์† son Hand โ€” the part of you with five fingerโ€ฆ โšซ ๊ฒ€์€์ƒ‰ geomeunsaek Black โ€” the very darkest colour. ๐ŸŸก ๋…ธ๋ž€์ƒ‰ noransaek Yellow โ€” the colour of the sun and banaโ€ฆ ๐Ÿ”ด ๋นจ๊ฐ„์ƒ‰ ppalgansaek Red โ€” the colour of apples and fire truโ€ฆ ๐ŸŸข ์ดˆ๋ก์ƒ‰ choroksaek Green โ€” the colour of grass and frogs. ๐Ÿ”ต ํŒŒ๋ž€์ƒ‰ paransaek Blue โ€” the colour of the sky and the seโ€ฆ โšช ํ•˜์–€์ƒ‰ hayansaek White โ€” the colour of clouds and milk. 2๏ธโƒฃ ๋‘˜ dul Two โ€” the number after one: 2. 3๏ธโƒฃ ์…‹ set Three โ€” the number after two: 3. ๐Ÿ”Ÿ ์—ด yeol Ten โ€” the number after nine: 10. 1๏ธโƒฃ ํ•˜๋‚˜ hana One โ€” the first number: 1.