๐ฆ ๋๋ฌผ (Animals) in Korean
The Korean word for animal is ๋๋ฌผ (dong-mul).
Whether you’re visiting a zoo, farm, or wildlife park, or just want to talk about pets in Korean, knowing these animal names will be super useful!
In this post, you’ll learn 50+ key animal names in Korean, grouped into pets, wild animals, birds, reptiles, and sea creatures. Save this list and start practicing today!
๐ Pets & Domestic Animals (์ ์๋๋ฌผ / ๊ฐ์ถ)
| Korean | Pronunciation | English |
|---|---|---|
| ์ ์๋๋ฌผ | ae-wan-dong-mul | Pet |
| ๊ฐ์์ง | gang-a-ji | Puppy, dog |
| ๊ณ ์์ด | go-yang-i | Cat |
| ํ ๋ผ | to-kki | Rabbit |
| ์ฅ | jwi | Mouse, rat |
| ๋ง | mal | Horse |
| ๋ผ์ง | dwae-ji | Pig |
| ์ | so | Cow |
| ์ | yang | Sheep |
| ์ผ์ | yeom-so | Goat |
๐ฆ Wild Animals (์ผ์๋๋ฌผ)
| Korean | Pronunciation | English |
|---|---|---|
| ์ผ์๋๋ฌผ | ya-saeng-dong-mul | Wild animal |
| ์ฌ์ด | sa-seum | Deer |
| ๊ณฐ | gom | Bear |
| ํธ๋์ด | ho-rang-i | Tiger |
| ์ฌ์ | sa-ja | Lion |
| ์ฝ๋ผ๋ฆฌ | ko-kki-ri | Elephant |
| ์์ญ์ด | won-sung-i | Monkey |
| ๊ธฐ๋ฆฐ | gi-rin | Giraffe |
| ๋๋ | neuk-dae | Wolf |
| ์ฌ์ฐ | yeo-u | Fox |
๐ฆ Birds (์)
| Korean | Pronunciation | English |
|---|---|---|
| ์ | sae | Bird |
| ๋น๋๊ธฐ | bi-dul-gi | Pigeon |
| ๋ ์๋ฆฌ | dok-su-ri | Eagle |
| ์ฐธ์ | cham-sae | Sparrow |
| ๊น์น | kka-chi | Magpie |
| ์ค๋ฆฌ | o-ri | Duck |
| ๋ญ | dak | Chicken |
| ๋ณ์๋ฆฌ | byeong-a-ri | Chick |
| ํ์กฐ | ta-jo | Ostrich |
| ํญ๊ท | peng-gwin | Penguin |
๐ฆ Reptiles & Amphibians (ํ์ถฉ๋ฅ & ์์๋ฅ)
| Korean | Pronunciation | English |
|---|---|---|
| ๋ฑ | baem | Snake |
| ์ ์ด | ak-eo | Crocodile, alligator |
| ๊ฑฐ๋ถ์ด | geo-buk-i | Turtle, tortoise |
| ๋๋ง๋ฑ | do-ma-baem | Lizard |
| ๊ฐ๊ตฌ๋ฆฌ | gae-gu-ri | Frog |
๐ Sea Creatures (๋ฐ๋ค ๋๋ฌผ)
| Korean | Pronunciation | English |
|---|---|---|
| ๋ฌผ๊ณ ๊ธฐ | mul-go-gi | Fish |
| ์์ด | sang-eo | Shark |
| ๊ณ ๋ | go-rae | Whale |
| ๋๊ณ ๋ | dol-go-rae | Dolphin |
| ํด๋ง | hae-ma | Seahorse |
| ๋ฌธ์ด | mun-eo | Octopus |
| ์ค์ง์ด | o-jing-eo | Squid |
| ๊ฒ | ge | Crab |
| ์กฐ๊ฐ | jo-gae | Clam, shellfish |
| ๋ถ๊ฐ์ฌ๋ฆฌ | bul-ga-sa-ri | Starfish |
๐ฏ Practice Time!
Test your knowledge by answering these questions in the comments:
1๏ธโฃ What is the Korean word for “tiger”? ๐ฏ
2๏ธโฃ How do you say “rabbit” in Korean? ๐ฐ
3๏ธโฃ Whatโs the word for “penguin” in Korean? ๐ง
Comment your answers below! ๐
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