๐Ÿงฎ Essential Korean Math Vocabulary & Expressions for Learners

Learn Important Korean Words for Math Class, Studying, and Daily Use

Whether you’re a student in Korea, studying for TOPIK, or simply expanding your Korean language skills, mastering math-related Korean vocabulary is essential. This guide will help you understand the most common math terms and phrases used in school, textbooks, and everyday problem solving.

Perfect for Korean learners, teachers, or parents helping children with math in Korean!


โž— Basic Math Terms in Korean

KoreanPronunciationEnglish
์ˆ˜ํ•™su-hakMathematics
์ˆซ์žsut-jaNumber
์ˆ˜suNumber (count)
๋ฌธ์ œmun-jeProblem / Question
์ •๋‹ตjeong-dapCorrect answer
๊ณ„์‚ฐgye-sanCalculation
์‹sikEquation / Formula
๋‹ตdapAnswer
์˜ค๋‹ตo-dapWrong answer
๋‹จ์œ„dan-wiUnit
๊ธฐํ˜ธgi-hoSymbol

๐Ÿ”ข Numbers & Operations in Korean

KoreanPronunciationEnglish
๋”ํ•˜๊ธฐdeo-ha-giAddition
๋นผ๊ธฐppae-giSubtraction
๊ณฑํ•˜๊ธฐgop-ha-giMultiplication
๋‚˜๋ˆ„๊ธฐna-nu-giDivision
ํ•ฉ๊ณ„hap-gyeTotal / Sum
ํ‰๊ท pyeong-gyunAverage
ํผ์„ผํŠธpeo-sen-teuPercent
๋ถ„์ˆ˜bun-suFraction
์†Œ์ˆ˜so-suDecimal
์†Œ์ˆ˜์ so-su-jeomDecimal point

โž• Useful Expressions for Math in Korean

KoreanPronunciationEnglish
๋ช‡ ๋”ํ•˜๊ธฐ ๋ช‡์€ ์–ผ๋งˆ์˜ˆ์š”?myeot deo-ha-gi myeot-eun eol-ma-ye-yo?What is X plus Y?
์ •๋‹ต์ด์—์š”.jeong-dap-i-e-yoThatโ€™s the correct answer.
๋‹ค์‹œ ๊ณ„์‚ฐํ•ด ๋ณด์„ธ์š”.da-si gye-san-hae bo-se-yoTry calculating again.
ํ‹€๋ ธ์–ด์š”.teul-ryeot-seo-yoItโ€™s incorrect.
์ด ์‹์„ ํ’€์–ด ๋ณด์„ธ์š”.i sik-eul pu-reo bo-se-yoSolve this equation.
๊ณ„์‚ฐ๊ธฐ ์จ๋„ ๋ผ์š”?gye-san-gi sseo-do dwae-yo?Can I use a calculator?

๐Ÿ“ Geometry & Shapes in Korean

KoreanPronunciationEnglish
๋„ํ˜•do-hyeongShape
์„ seonLine
์ jeomPoint
๊ฐ๋„gak-doAngle
์›wonCircle
์‚ผ๊ฐํ˜•sam-gak-hyeongTriangle
์‚ฌ๊ฐํ˜•sa-gak-hyeongSquare / Rectangle
์ง์„ jik-seonStraight line
๊ณก์„ gok-seonCurve
๋‘˜๋ ˆdul-lePerimeter
๋„“์ดneol-biArea
๋ถ€ํ”ผbu-piVolume

๐Ÿ“Š Algebra & Graphing Vocabulary

KoreanPronunciationEnglish
๋ณ€์ˆ˜byeon-suVariable
๋ฐฉ์ •์‹bang-jeong-sikEquation
ํ•จ์ˆ˜ham-suFunction
๊ทธ๋ž˜ํ”„geu-rae-peuGraph
์ขŒํ‘œjwa-pyoCoordinates
์ถ•chukAxis
์ผ์ฐจ๋ฐฉ์ •์‹il-cha-bang-jeong-sikLinear equation
์ด์ฐจ๋ฐฉ์ •์‹i-cha-bang-jeong-sikQuadratic equation

๐Ÿง  Advanced Math Terms in Korean

KoreanPronunciationEnglish
๋ฏธ๋ถ„mi-bunDifferentiation
์ ๋ถ„jeok-bunIntegration
๊ธฐํ•˜ํ•™gi-ha-hakGeometry
๋Œ€์ˆ˜ํ•™dae-su-hakAlgebra
ํ™•๋ฅ hwang-nyulProbability
ํ†ต๊ณ„tong-gyeStatistics
์ˆ˜์—ดsu-yeolSequence
ํ–‰๋ ฌhaeng-ryeolMatrix

๐Ÿ’ฌ Common School & Classroom Phrases

KoreanPronunciationEnglish
์ˆ˜ํ•™ ๋ฌธ์ œ๋ฅผ ํ‘ธ์„ธ์š”.su-hak mun-je-reul pu-se-yoSolve the math problem.
๋‹ต์ด ๋ญ์˜ˆ์š”?dap-i mwo-ye-yo?Whatโ€™s the answer?
๋ช‡ ์ ์ด์—์š”?myeot jeom-i-e-yo?What score did you get?
๋‹ค์‹œ ์„ค๋ช…ํ•ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”.da-si seol-myeong-hae ju-se-yoPlease explain again.
์ดํ•ดํ–ˆ์–ด์š”.i-hae-haet-seo-yoI understood.
์ดํ•ด๊ฐ€ ์•ˆ ๋ผ์š”.i-hae-ga an dwae-yoI donโ€™t understand.

๐ŸŽฏ Practice Time!

1๏ธโƒฃ How do you say โ€œdivisionโ€ in Korean?
2๏ธโƒฃ Whatโ€™s the Korean word for โ€œfractionโ€?
3๏ธโƒฃ Translate: โ€œSolve this equation.โ€

Leave your answers in the comments and keep practicing!


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