Every feelings word on the TOPIK lists with its romanization and meaning, the beginner ones in a real sentence. Filter it, flip it into flashcards, or carry it on your Lock Screen with Lock&Learn Korean.
Words for feelings in Korean: happy, sad, angry, tired, surprised, to like and to worry, and the other states of mind on the TOPIK vocabulary lists, each with its reading and meaning.
In Lock&Learn Korean these words sit in their level packs (Beginner 1, Beginner 2, Advanced 1), one per glance on the widget: a word waits in hangul with its romanization; one tap reveals the meaning and a real sentence. Beginner 1 is free; every other pack opens with a free preview and another word unlocks daily.
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| Hangul | Romanization | Meaning | Level | Example |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ์๋ค | utda | to laugh or smile | TOPIK I | ์ ๋ ์์ด์.Jeoneun useoyo.I laugh. |
| ์ฌ๋ | sarang | love | TOPIK I | ์ฌ๋ํด์.Saranghaeyo.I love you. |
| ๋๋ | neukkim | a feeling or sense | TOPIK I | ์ข์ ๋๋์ด ๋ค์ด์.Joeun neukkimi deureoyo.I have a good feeling. |
| ์ข์ํ๋ค | joahada | to like | TOPIK I | ์ ๋ ์ฌ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ์ข์ํด์.Jeoneun sagwareul joahaeyo.I like apples. |
| ๊ธฐ๋ถ | gibun | feeling, mood | TOPIK I | ์ค๋ ๊ธฐ๋ถ์ด ์ข์์.Oneul gibuni joayo.I feel good today. |
| ๋๋ผ๋ค | nolrada | to be surprised | TOPIK I | ๊น์ง ๋๋์ด์.Kkamjjak nolrasseoyo.I was surprised. |
| ์ฌ๋ํ๋ค | saranghada | to love | TOPIK I | ์ ๋ ๊ฐ์กฑ์ ์ฌ๋ํด์.Jeoneun gajogeul saranghaeyo.I love my family. |
| ์ซ๋ค | silta | to dislike | TOPIK I | ์ ๋ ๊ฒจ์ธ์ด ์ซ์ด์.Jeoneun gyeouri sireoyo.I don't like winter. |
| ๋ฌด์ญ๋ค | museopda | to be scary | TOPIK I | ๋ฐค์๋ ๋ฌด์์์.Bameneun museowoyo.It's scary at night. |
| ๊ฑฑ์ | geokjeong | worry or anxiety | TOPIK I | ๊ฑฑ์ ํ์ง ๋ง์ธ์.Geokjeonghaji maseyo.Don't worry. |
| ์คํธ๋ ์ค | seuteureseu | stress | TOPIK I | ์์ฆ ์คํธ๋ ์ค๊ฐ ๋ง์์.Yojeum seuteureseuga manayo.I have a lot of stress these days. |
| ๊ธฐ์๋ค | gippeuda | to be happy | TOPIK I | |
| ๊ธฐ์จ | gippeum | joy or delight | TOPIK I | |
| ํ | hwa | anger | TOPIK I | |
| ๊ณ ๋ฏผ | gomin | worry or concern | TOPIK I | |
| ๊ถ๊ธํ๋ค | gunggeumhada | to be curious | TOPIK I | |
| ํ๋ณต | haengbok | happiness | TOPIK I | |
| ๋ถ์ | buran | anxiety or unease | TOPIK I | |
| ์ฌํ๋ค | seulpeuda | to be sad | TOPIK I | |
| ๋ถ๋๋ฝ๋ค | bukkeureopda | to be shy | TOPIK I | |
| ๋ถ๋ฝ๋ค | bureopda | to be envious | TOPIK I | |
| ๊ธด์ฅ | ginjang | tension | TOPIK I | |
| ๊ฑฑ์ ํ๋ค | geokjeonghada | to worry | TOPIK I | |
| ๋ต๋ตํ๋ค | dapdaphada | to feel stifled | TOPIK I | |
| ์ซ์ดํ๋ค | sireohada | to dislike | TOPIK I | |
| ํผ๊ณคํ๋ค | pigonhada | to be tired | TOPIK I | |
| ์ฌํ | seulpeum | sorrow | TOPIK I | |
| ๊ธฐ๋ปํ๋ค | gippeohada | to be pleased | TOPIK I | |
| ์ธ๋กญ๋ค | oeropda | to be lonely | TOPIK I | |
| ์ง์ฆ | jjajeung | annoyance or irritation | TOPIK I | |
| ๊ท์ฐฎ๋ค | gwichanta | to be bothersome/lazy | TOPIK I | |
| ๊ทธ๋ฆฝ๋ค | geuripda | to miss (someone or something) | TOPIK I | |
| ์ง๋ฃจํ๋ค | jiruhada | to be bored / to be boring | TOPIK I | |
| ์ญ์ญํ๋ค | seopseophada | to be disappointed | TOPIK I | |
| ์ฌ์ฌํ๋ค | simsimhada | to be bored | TOPIK I | |
| ์ฌํผํ๋ค | seulpeohada | to feel sad | TOPIK I | |
| ํ๋๋ค | hwanada | to be angry | TOPIK I | |
| ํผ๊ณค | pigon | fatigue, tired | TOPIK I | |
| ๊ท์ฌ์ํ๋ค | gwiyeowohada | to adore / to cherish / to think fondly of | TOPIK I | |
| ํ๋ด๋ค | hwanaeda | to get angry | TOPIK I | |
| ์ฌ์ | simjeong | one's inner feelings | TOPIK 5-6 |
Word lists: the National Institute of Korean Language (NIKL) learner vocabulary and the 2015 TOPIK vocabulary list, as compiled in combined_korean_vocabulary_list. English senses adapted from Kengdic by Joe Speigle (MPL 2.0). Revised Romanization is generated; example sentences are original Lock&Learn content.
The 41 words below are the emotion and feeling words on the TOPIK vocabulary lists with their readings and meanings. The beginner-level entries come with a real sentence.
40 from TOPIK I, 1 from TOPIK II Advanced. The level chip on each row says where the word sits, so you can stop at your level or read ahead. Beginner-level words carry a real example sentence; the rest show word, romanization and meaning, with their sentences in the app.
Install Lock&Learn Korean, then touch and hold your Lock Screen, tap Customize, tap the widget area and choose Lock&Learn Korean. Enable the level packs these words come from (Beginner 1, Beginner 2, Advanced 1). A word waits in hangul with its romanization; one tap reveals the meaning and a real sentence.
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