Learn Must-Know Korean Vocabulary for Biology Classes, Science Conversations & More
Studying science in Korean? Want to talk about living organisms, genetics, or the human body? This guide covers important Korean biology vocabulary and expressions to boost your confidence in academic and everyday conversations.
๐ฟ Basic Biology Vocabulary in Korean
| Korean | Pronunciation | English |
|---|---|---|
| ์๋ฌผํ | saeng-mul-hak | Biology |
| ์๋ช ์ฒด | saeng-myeong-che | Living organism |
| ์ธํฌ | se-po | Cell |
| ์กฐ์ง | jo-jik | Tissue |
| ๊ธฐ๊ด | gi-gwan | Organ |
| ์๋ช | saeng-myeong | Life |
| ์ ๊ธฐ์ฒด | yu-gi-che | Organism |
| ์ ์ ์ | yu-jeon-ja | Gene |
| DNA | di-en-ei | DNA |
| RNA | a-reu-en-ei | RNA |
๐ฌ Biology Fields & Subtopics
| Korean | Pronunciation | English |
|---|---|---|
| ํด๋ถํ | hae-bu-hak | Anatomy |
| ์๋ฆฌํ | saeng-ri-hak | Physiology |
| ์ธํฌํ | se-po-hak | Cytology |
| ์ ์ ํ | yu-jeon-hak | Genetics |
| ์ํํ | saeng-tae-hak | Ecology |
| ์งํ๋ก | jin-hwa-ron | Evolution theory |
| ๋ถ๋ฅํ | bun-ryu-hak | Taxonomy |
| ๋ฏธ์๋ฌผํ | mi-saeng-mul-hak | Microbiology |
| ๋ฐ์ํ | bal-saeng-hak | Embryology |
| ๋ฉด์ญํ | myeon-yeok-hak | Immunology |
๐ง Human Body Biology Vocabulary
| Korean | Pronunciation | English |
|---|---|---|
| ๋ | noe | Brain |
| ์ฌ์ฅ | sim-jang | Heart |
| ํ | pae | Lung |
| ๊ฐ | gan | Liver |
| ์ ์ฅ | sin-jang | Kidney |
| ํผ๋ถ | pi-bu | Skin |
| ๊ทผ์ก | geun-yuk | Muscle |
| ํ์ก | hyeol-aek | Blood |
| ์ ๊ฒฝ | sin-gyeong | Nerve |
| ์ํ | so-hwa | Digestion |
๐งซ Cellular & Genetic Biology
| Korean | Pronunciation | English |
|---|---|---|
| ์ธํฌ๋ง | se-po-mak | Cell membrane |
| ํต | haek | Nucleus |
| ์ผ์์ฒด | yeom-saek-che | Chromosome |
| ๋จ๋ฐฑ์ง | dan-baek-jil | Protein |
| ํจ์ | hyo-so | Enzyme |
| ๋์ฐ๋ณ์ด | dol-yeon-byeon-i | Mutation |
| ์ธ๊ท | se-gyun | Bacteria |
| ๋ฐ์ด๋ฌ์ค | ba-i-reo-seu | Virus |
| ๋ฐฑํ๊ตฌ | baek-hyeol-gu | White blood cell |
| ์ ํ๊ตฌ | jeok-hyeol-gu | Red blood cell |
๐ Biology-Related Phrases & Expressions
| Korean | Pronunciation | English |
|---|---|---|
| ์๋ฌผํ์ ๊ณต๋ถํ๊ณ ์์ด์. | saeng-mul-hak-eul gong-bu-ha-go it-seo-yo | Iโm studying biology. |
| ์ธํฌ๋ ์๋ช ์ ๊ธฐ๋ณธ ๋จ์์ ๋๋ค. | se-po-neun saeng-myeong-ui gi-bon dan-ui-im-ni-da | A cell is the basic unit of life. |
| ์ ์ ์๋ ๋ถ๋ชจ์๊ฒ์ ๋ฌผ๋ ค๋ฐ์์. | yu-jeon-ja-neun bu-mo-e-ge-seo mul-ryeo-ba-da-yo | Genes are inherited from parents. |
| ํด๋ถํ์ ๋ชธ์ ๊ตฌ์กฐ๋ฅผ ์ฐ๊ตฌํฉ๋๋ค. | hae-bu-hak-eun mom-ui gu-jo-reul yeon-gu-ham-ni-da | Anatomy studies the structure of the body. |
| DNA๋ ์ ์ ์ ๋ณด๋ฅผ ๋ด๊ณ ์์ด์. | di-en-ei-neun yu-jeon jeong-bo-reul dam-go it-seo-yo | DNA contains genetic information. |
๐งช Practice Time!
Letโs test what youโve learned! Comment your answers below:
1๏ธโฃ Whatโs the Korean word for โgeneโ?
2๏ธโฃ How do you say โorganismโ in Korean?
3๏ธโฃ Whatโs โcellโ in Korean?
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