Numbers, family, food, time and more: 1,130 beginner words from the TOPIK lists sorted by topic, each with its romanization and meaning. Read a topic here, then let Lock&Learn Korean put the words on your Lock Screen.
Exam lists run in list order; a beginner thinks in topics. These 15 pages regroup the TOPIK vocabulary by what the words are about, every entry with its romanization and meaning and a level chip, and the Beginner 1 words with a real example sentence. Start with numbers and greetings, and come back for the rest.
Digits, tens, hundred, thousand, ten thousand
ํ one · ๋ two · ํ๋ the number one · ์ธ three
58 words Read the list → Days, months and timeDays of the week, months, seasons, today, tomorrow, hours
๋ year · ์๊ฐ time · ๋ day · ์ง๊ธ right now
96 words Read the list → ColorsRed, blue, white, black and the rest
์ a color · ํ์๋ค to be white · ์๊น color
39 words Read the list → FamilyParents, siblings, grandparents, spouses, children
์์ด child · ์ด๋จธ๋ mother · ์๋ฒ์ง father · ์๋ง mom or mother
91 words Read the list → Body and healthHead to foot, plus sick, hospital, medicine
๋ eye · ๋ชธ body · ์ผ๊ตด face · ์ hand
91 words Read the list → Food and drinkMeals, dishes, drinks, eating and ordering
๋จน๋ค to eat · ๋ฌผ water · ๋ฐฅ rice or meal · ๋ง์๋ค to drink
163 words Read the list → AnimalsPets, farm and wild animals, birds, fish
์ a bird · ๋๋ฌผ an animal · ๊ฐ a dog
40 words Read the list → Weather and natureRain, snow, hot, cold, mountain, river, sea
๋ ground or land · ํ๋ sky · ์์ฐ nature · ์ฐ a mountain
55 words Read the list → ClothesShirts, shoes, coats, and the verbs for wearing them
์ ๋ค to wear clothes · ์ท clothes · ๋ฒ๋ค to take off · ๊ฐ๋ฐฉ bag
61 words Read the list → Home and everyday objectsRooms, furniture, household objects
์ง house · ์ปดํจํฐ computer · ๋ฐฉ a room · ์ํํธ apartment
78 words Read the list → School and workSchool, study, exams, office, company, job
์ผ work or task · ํ๊ต school · ๊ต์ก education · ์ ์๋ teacher
111 words Read the list → Travel and placesTransport, stations, tickets, hotels, directions
๊ธธ road or street · ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋๋ผ Korea · ์์ฅ a market · ๋๋ผ a country
155 words Read the list → FeelingsHappy, sad, angry, tired, surprised
์๋ค to laugh or smile · ์ฌ๋ love · ๋๋ a feeling or sense · ์ข์ํ๋ค to like
41 words Read the list → Question wordsWhat, who, where, when, why, how, which
์ด๋ค what kind of · ์ด๋ป๋ค how · ๋๊ตฌ who · ์ด๋ which / some
21 words Read the list → Greetings and phrasesHello, goodbye, thank you, sorry, please
๊ทธ๋ That's right · ๊ทธ๋ผ sure / of course · ๊ด์ฐฎ๋ค to be okay/fine · ์๋ no or not
30 words Read the list →Every word on these topic pages also sits on its level list, in the order the TOPIK syllabus runs. Pick a level when you want the whole picture.
The ones a beginner meets first: every word on the TOPIK lists that belongs to an everyday topic (numbers, time, family, food, the body, the weather, clothes, the home, school and work, travel, feelings, question words and greetings). Most of them sit at the first two levels, and the level chip on every row says which. Abstract words and grammar words stay on the level lists, where list order matters more than topic.
The words come from the TOPIK vocabulary lists this site publishes level by level; the topic on each word is Lock&Learn's own tagging, one topic per word, kept deliberately strict so that a topic page holds only what a learner would look for under that heading.
Install Lock&Learn Korean, then touch and hold your Lock Screen, tap Customize, tap the widget area and choose Lock&Learn Korean. The Beginner 1 pack, free in the app, holds most of the words on these pages. A word waits in hangul with its romanization; one tap reveals the meaning and a real sentence.
Yes. The app is free on iOS: Beginner 1 is free, every other pack opens with a free preview, and another word unlocks daily. Lock&Learn+ is an optional upgrade that opens every pack at once, offered as a yearly plan or a one-time lifetime purchase.