Learn Key Korean Words Related to the Universe, Astronomy, and Outer Space
Are you a space lover learning Korean? Whether you’re into astronomy, sci-fi K-dramas, or just curious about the cosmos, knowing Korean space vocabulary will take your language learning to another galaxy! ๐
In this post, you’ll learn important Korean words and expressions related to planets, stars, galaxies, space travel, and more. Perfect for students, K-drama fans, and Korean learners who want to explore beyond Earth!
๐ Basic Universe & Space Terms in Korean
| Korean | Pronunciation | English |
|---|---|---|
| ์ฐ์ฃผ | u-ju | Universe / Outer space |
| ์ฐ์ฃผ ๊ณต๊ฐ | u-ju gong-gan | Outer space |
| ์ํ | eun-ha | Galaxy |
| ์ํ์ | eun-ha-su | Milky Way |
| ํ์ฑ | haeng-seong | Planet |
| ๋ณ | byeol | Star |
| ํ์ | tae-yang | Sun |
| ๋ฌ | dal | Moon |
| ์ง๊ตฌ | ji-gu | Earth |
| ์์ฑ | wi-seong | Satellite |
๐ช Planets in the Solar System (ํ์๊ณ ํ์ฑ)
| Korean | Pronunciation | English |
|---|---|---|
| ์์ฑ | su-seong | Mercury |
| ๊ธ์ฑ | geum-seong | Venus |
| ์ง๊ตฌ | ji-gu | Earth |
| ํ์ฑ | hwa-seong | Mars |
| ๋ชฉ์ฑ | mok-seong | Jupiter |
| ํ ์ฑ | to-seong | Saturn |
| ์ฒ์์ฑ | cheon-wang-seong | Uranus |
| ํด์์ฑ | hae-wang-seong | Neptune |
| ๋ช ์์ฑ | myeong-wang-seong | Pluto (dwarf planet) |
๐ Astronomy Vocabulary in Korean
| Korean | Pronunciation | English |
|---|---|---|
| ์ฒ๋ฌธํ | cheon-mun-hak | Astronomy |
| ์ฒ์ฒด | cheon-che | Celestial body |
| ๋ณ์๋ฆฌ | byeol-ja-ri | Constellation |
| ๋ง์๊ฒฝ | mang-won-gyeong | Telescope |
| ํ์ฑ | hye-seong | Comet |
| ์ํ์ฑ | so-haeng-seong | Asteroid |
| ๋ธ๋ํ | beul-laek-hol | Black hole |
| ์ค๋ ฅ | jung-ryeok | Gravity |
| ๋น์ ์๋ | bich-ui sok-do | Speed of light |
| ๋น ๋ฑ | big-baeng | Big Bang |
๐ Space Travel & Technology Vocabulary
| Korean | Pronunciation | English |
|---|---|---|
| ์ฐ์ฃผ์ | u-ju-seon | Spaceship |
| ์ฐ์ฃผ ์ ๊ฑฐ์ฅ | u-ju jeong-geo-jang | Space station |
| ์ฐ์ฃผ์ธ / ์ฐ์ฃผ ๋นํ์ฌ | u-ju-in / u-ju bi-haeng-sa | Astronaut |
| ๋ฐ์ฌ์ฒด | bal-sa-che | Rocket |
| ๋ฐ์ฌ | bal-sa | Launch |
| ์ฐฉ๋ฅ | chak-ryuk | Landing |
| ์ค๋ ฅ ์์ | jung-ryeok eop-seum | Zero gravity |
| ํ์ฌ์ | tam-sa-seon | Space probe |
| ์ธ๊ณต์์ฑ | in-gong-wi-seong | Artificial satellite |
| ๊ถค๋ | gwe-do | Orbit |
๐ Common Space-related Expressions in Korean
| Korean | Pronunciation | English |
|---|---|---|
| ์ฐ์ฃผ๋ ์ ๋ง ์ ๋น๋ก์์. | u-ju-neun jeong-mal sin-bi-ro-wo-yo | Space is truly mysterious. |
| ์ง๊ตฌ๋ ํ์ ์ฃผ์๋ฅผ ๋๋๋ค. | ji-gu-neun tae-yang ju-wi-reul dom-ni-da | Earth orbits the sun. |
| ๋ณ์ด ์์ฃผ ๋ฐ์์. | byeol-i a-ju bal-ga-yo | The star is very bright. |
| ๋ฌ์ด ์ค๋ ์ ๋ง ์๋ป์. | dal-i o-neul jeong-mal ye-ppeo-yo | The moon is beautiful tonight. |
| ์ ๋ณ์๋ฆฌ๋ ๋ฌด์์ธ๊ฐ์? | jeo byeol-ja-ri-neun mu-eot-in-ga-yo? | What constellation is that? |
| ๋ธ๋ํ์ ๋น๋ ๋นจ์๋ค์ฌ์. | beul-laek-hol-eun bich-do ppal-a-deul-yeo-yo | A black hole even absorbs light. |
๐ง Quiz Yourself!
1๏ธโฃ Whatโs the Korean word for โblack holeโ?
2๏ธโฃ How do you say โEarth orbits the sunโ in Korean?
3๏ธโฃ Translate โspaceshipโ and โgravityโ into Korean.
Drop your answers in the comments to test your space vocabulary! ๐ฌ
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