170+ Animals in Korean ๐ The Ultimate Guide for All The Animals!
Learn 170+ Animals in Korean ๐ฏ
If you are a loyal LTL blog reader, you’ll already know all about the Korean alphabet, Korean loanwords, slang and perhaps even swear words!
But how about some basic vocabulary you can use in daily conversations?
Let’s start off this new series of Korean vocabulary articles with a subject we all like to talk about: ANIMALS!
This impressive list of animals in Korean was put together by our team of Korean teachers on Flexi Classes, and we even added a great quiz at the end of the article for you to test your knowledge.
Are you ready? Skip to the chapter you are most interested about:
Animals in Korean | Land mammals
Animals in Korean | Sea animals
Animals in Korean | Birds
Animals in Korean | Marsupials
Animals in Korean | Reptiles
Animals in Korean | Insects
BONUS | Zodiac Animals in Korean
Animals in Korean | Vocab’ Quiz
Animals in Korean | FAQ’s
Animals in Korean – Land Mammals
This table is organised in alphabetical order.
If you cannot find your favourite animal, press Ctrl+F and type in its name.
Let us know in the comment section what animals in Korean are missing from the list or ones you’d like us to add!
| English | Korean | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| Anteater | ๊ฐ๋ฏธํฅ๊ธฐ | gaemihaltgi |
| Antelope | ์์ | yeong-yang |
| Armadillo | ์๋ฅด๋ง๋๋ก | aleumadilro |
| Badger | ์ค์๋ฆฌ | osori |
| Bat | ๋ฐ์ฅ | bakjwi |
| Bear | ๊ณฐ | gom |
| Beaver | ๋น๋ฒ | bibeo |
| Boar | ์ํ์ง | sutwaeji |
| Camel | ๋ํ | nakta |
| Cat | ๊ณ ์์ด | goyang-i |
| Cheetah | ์นํ | chita |
| Chimpanzee | ์นจํฌ์ง | chimpaenji |
| Chinchilla | ์น์น ๋ผ | chinchilra |
| Chipmunk | ๋ค๋์ฅ | dalam jwi |
| Cow | ์์ | amso |
| Coyote | ์ฝ์ํ | koyote |
| Deer | ์ฌ์ด | saseum |
| Dog | ๊ฐ | gae |
| Donkey | ๋น๋๊ท | dangnagwi |
| Echnida | ์ํฌ๋๋ค | ekeunida |
Animal in Korean is ๋๋ฌผ dongmul
| English | Korean | Romanisation |
|---|---|---|
| Elephant | ์ฝ๋ผ๋ฆฌ | kokkiri |
| Ferret | ํฐ๋ด๋น | hindambi |
| Fox | ์ฌ์ฐ | yeo-u |
| Gazelle | ๊ฐ์ ค | gajel |
| Giant panda | ํ๋ค | panda |
| Giraffe | ๊ธฐ๋ฆฐ | girin |
| Gorilla | ๊ณ ๋ฆด๋ผ | gorilra |
| Guinea pig | ๊ธฐ๋ํผ๊ทธ | ginipigeu |
| Hamster | ํ์คํฐ | haemseuteo |
| Hedgehog | ๊ณ ์ด๋์น | goseumdochi |
| Hippopotamus | ํ๋ง | hama |
| Human | ์ธ๊ฐ | ingan |
| Hyena | ํ์ด์๋ | ha i-e-na |
| Jaguar | ์ฌ๊ท์ด | jaegyu-eo |
| Lemur | ์ฌ์ฐ ์์ญ์ด | yeo-u wonsung-i |
| Leopard | ํ๋ฒ | pyobeom |
| Lion | ์ฌ์ | saja |
| Meerkat | ๋ฏธ์ด์บฃ | mi-eokaet |
| Mole | ๋๋์ง | dudeoji |
| Moose | ๋ฌด์ค | mu-seu |
| Mouse | ์ฅ | jwi |
| Mule | ๋ ธ์ | nosae |
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| English | Korean | Romanisation |
|---|---|---|
| Orangutan | ์ค๋์ฐํ | olang-u tan |
| Otter | ์๋ฌ | sudal |
| Panther | ํ๋ฒ | pyobeom |
| Polar bear | ๋ถ๊ทน๊ณฐ | bukgeukgom |
| Porcupine bear | ๊ณ ์ด๋์น | goseumdochi |
| Possum | ์ฃผ๋จธ๋์ฅ | jumeonijwi |
| Puma | ํจ๋ง | pyuma |
| Racoon | ๋๊ตฌ๋ฆฌ | neoguri |
| Red panda | ๋ ์ ํ๋ค | reseo panda |
| Reindeer | ์๋ก | sunlok |
| Rhinoceros | ์ฝ๋ฟ์ | koppulso |
| Sloth | ๋๋ฌด๋๋ณด | nanuneulbo |
| Squirrel | ์ฒญ์ค๋ชจ | cheongseolmo |
| Tapir | ๋งฅ | maek |
| Warthog | ๋ฉง๋ผ์ง | metdwaeji |
| Weasel | ์กฑ์ ๋น | jokjebi |
| White tiger | ๋ฐฑํธ | baekho |
| Wolf | ๋๋ | neukdae |
| Yak | ์ผํฌ | yakeu |
| Zebra | ์ผ๋ฃฉ๋ง | eolrukmal |
Sea Animals in Korean
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Sea Animal in Korean is ํด์ ๋๋ฌผ haeyang dongmul
| English | Korean | Romanisation |
|---|---|---|
| Barnacle | ๋ฐ๊ฐ๋น | ttagaebi |
| Barracuda | ์ฐฝ๊ผฌ์ง | changkkoji |
| Catfish | ๋ฉ๊ธฐ | megi |
| Clam | ๋ํฉ | daehap |
| Clownfish | ํฐ๋๊ฐ๋ฆฌ | huindong-gari |
| Coral | ์ฐํธ | sanho |
| Crab | ๊ฒ | ge |
| Cuttlefish | ์ค์ง์ด | ojing-eo |
| Dolphin | ๋๊ณ ๋ | dolgolae |
| Eel | ๋ฑ์ฅ์ด | baemjang-eo |
| Fish | ์์ | saengseon |
| Flounder | ๊ฐ์๋ฏธ | gajami |
| Great white shark | ๋ฐฑ์์๋ฆฌ | baeksangari |
| Horseshoe crab | ํฌ๊ตฌ๊ฒ | tuguge |
| Jellyfish | ํดํ๋ฆฌ | haepari |
| Lobster | ๋์คํฐ | rapseuteo |
| Manta Ray | ์ฅ๊ฐ์ค๋ฆฌ | jwiga-ori |
| Octopus | ๋ฌธ์ด | mun-eo |
| Oyster | ๊ตด | gul |
| Piranha | ํผ๋ผ๋ | piranya |
| English | Korean | Romanisation |
|---|---|---|
| Platypus | ์ค๋ฆฌ๋๊ตฌ๋ฆฌ | orineoguri |
| Prawn | ์์์ฐ | wangsa-eu |
| Pufferfish | ๋ณต์ด | bok-eo |
| Sea lion | ๋ฐ๋ค ์ฌ์ | bada saja |
| Sea urchin | ์ฑ๊ฒ | seong-ge |
| Seahorse | ํด๋ง | haema |
| Seal | ์กฐ๊ฐ | jogae |
| Shark | ์์ด | sang-eo |
| Shrimp | ์์ฐ | sae-u |
| Squid | ์ค์ง์ด | ojing-eo |
| Starfish | ๋ถ๊ฐ์ฌ๋ฆฌ | bulgasari |
| Stingray | ๊ฐ์ค๋ฆฌ | ga-ori |
| Walrus | ๋ฐ๋ค ์ฝ๋ผ๋ฆฌ | badakokkiri |
| Whale | ๊ณ ๋ | gorae |
| Whale shark | ๊ณ ๋ ์์ด | gorae sang-eo |
Did you notice that Walrus is in Korean a “beach elephant”?!
Animals in Korean – Birds
Bird in Korean is ์ sae
| English | Korean | Romanisation |
|---|---|---|
| Chicken | ๋ญ | dak |
| Crane | ๋๋ฃจ๋ฏธ | durumi |
| Duck | ์ค๋ฆฌ | o-ri |
| Eagle | ๋ ์๋ฆฌ | doksuri |
| Emu | ์๋ฎค | e-myu |
| Falcon | ๋งค | mae |
| Flamingo | ํ๋ผ๋ฐ๊ณ | peulraming-go |
| Goose | ๊ฑฐ์ | geowi |
| Hummingbird | ๋ฒ์ | beolsae |
| Kingfisher | ๋ฌผ์ด์ | mulchongsae |
| Kiwi | ํค์ | kiwi |
| Magpie | ๊น์น | kkachi |
| Ostrich | ํ์กฐ | tajo |
| English | Korean | Romanisation |
|---|---|---|
| Owl | ์ฌ๋นผ๋ฏธ | olppaemi |
| Parrot | ์ต๋ฌด์ | aengmusae |
| Peacock | ๊ณต์ | gongjak |
| Pelican | ํ ๋ฆฌ์ปจ | pelrikeon |
| Penguin | ํญ๊ท | peng-gwin |
| Pheasant | ๊ฟฉ | kkwong |
| Quail | ๋ฉ์ถ๋ผ๊ธฐ | mechuragi |
| Robin | ์ธ์ | ulsae |
| Sparrow | ์ฐธ์ | chamsae |
| Swan | ๋ฐฑ์กฐ | baekjo |
| Toucan | ํฐ๋ถ๋ฆฌ์ | keunburisae |
| Vulture | ๋ ์๋ฆฌ | doksuri |
| Woodpecker | ๋ฑ๋ฐ๊ตฌ๋ฆฌ | ttakttaguri |
Many names are actually direct phonetic translations from English, such as Penguin or Flamingo.
Not so difficult to remember them isn’t it!
FACT – Very recently, some Korean words were officially entered into the Oxford English Dictionary. 26 words in total, check them out here.
Animals in Korean – Marsupials
| English | Korean | Romanisation |
|---|---|---|
| Kangaroo | ์บฅ๊ฑฐ๋ฃจ | kaeng-geo lu |
| Koala | ์ฝ์๋ผ | ko-alla |
| Quokka | ์ฟผ์นด | kwoka |
| Tasmanian Devil | ์ฃผ๋จธ๋๊ณฐ | jumeonigom |
| Wallabee | ์๋ผ๋น | walrabi |
| Wombat | ์๋ฑ | wombaet |
See how 5 animals out of 6 above have the same name in Korean as in English?
You won’t need to spend too much time learning these ones.
Animals in Korean – Reptiles
You will see this word again in a later chapter but repetition is memory’s best friend: Snake in Korean is ๋ฑ baem.
| English | Korean | Romanisation |
|---|---|---|
| Alligator | ์ ์ด | ak-eo |
| Bearded dragon | ๋๋ง๋ฑ | domabaem |
| Chameleon | ์นด๋ฉ๋ ์จ | kamelre-on |
| Cobra | ์ฝ๋ธ๋ผ | kobeura |
| Crocodile | ์ ์ด | ak-eo |
| Frog | ๊ฐ๊ตฌ๋ฆฌ | gaeguli |
| Gecko | ๋๋ง๋ฑ๋ถ์ด | domabaembut-i |
| Iguana | ์ด๊ตฌ์๋ | igu-a-na |
| Lizard | ๋๋ง๋ฑ | domabaem |
| Salamander | ๋๋กฑ๋ฝ | dorongnyong |
| Toad | ๋๊บผ๋น | dukkeobi |
| Tortoise | ๋จ์์ด | namsaeng-i |
| Turtle | ๊ฑฐ๋ถ์ด | geobuk-i |
You read correctly and this is not a mistake, crocodile and alligator in Korean are the same!
Animals in Korean – Insects
We don’t always like them, but we just HAD to include them in our animals in Korean guide because they are indeed animals after all!
| English | Korean | Romanisation |
|---|---|---|
| Ant | ๊ฐ๋ฏธ | gaemi |
| Bee | ๋ฒ | beol |
| Beetle | ๋ฑ์ ๋ฒ๋ | ttakjeong beolle |
| Butterfly | ๋๋น | nabi |
| Catterpillar | ์ ๋ฒ๋ | aebeolle |
| Centipede | ์ง๋ค | jine |
| Dragonfly | ์ ์๋ฆฌ | jamjari |
| (House) fly | ๋ ๋ค | nalda |
| Grasshopper | ๋ฉ๋๊ธฐ | mettugi |
| Ladybug | ๋ฌด๋น๋ฒ๋ | mudangbeolle |
| Millipede | ๋ ธ๋๊ธฐ | nolaegi |
| Scorpion | ์ ๊ฐ | jeongal |
| Snail | ๋ฌํฝ์ด | dalpaeng-i |
| Spider | ๊ฑฐ๋ฏธ | geomi |
| Wasp | ๋ง๋ฒ | malbeol |
| Worm | ๋ฒ๋ | beolle |
BONUS – Zodiacs in Korean
Korean Zodiac Animals are the same as the Chinese ones, and also follow the 12-year cycle.
Most people in Korea like to ask for each other’s zodiac animal, so they can check compatibility, a traditional belief still very much engrained in today’s society.
We will explain more about Korean zodiac animals in another article, but for now, let’s check their names in Korean.
Zodiac animal in Korean is ์ญ์ด์ง์ sip-i-jisin
| English | Korean | Romanisation |
|---|---|---|
| Rat | ์ฅ | jwi |
| Ox | ์ | so |
| Tiger | ํธ๋์ด | holang-i |
| Rabbit | ํ ๋ผ | tokki |
| Dragon | ์ฉ | yong |
| Snake | ๋ฑ | baem |
| Horse | ๋ง | mal |
| Goat | ์ผ์ | yeomso |
| Monkey | ์์ญ์ด | wonsung-i |
| Rooster | ๋ญ | dak |
| Dog | ๊ฐ | gae |
| Pig | ๋ผ์ง | dwaeji |
KOREAN VOCAB QUIZ
There you have it! More than 170 animals in Korean for you to learn.
If your favourite animal did not make the list, make sure to let us know in the comment section below so we can add it.
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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
How do you say Animal in Korean?
Animal in Korean is ๋๋ฌผย dongmul.
How do you say Bird in Korean?
Bird in Korean is ์ sae.
How do you say Sea Animal in Korean?
Sea Animal in Korean is ํด์ ๋๋ฌผ haeyang dongmul.
How do you say Squid in Korean?
Squid in Korean is ์ค์ง์ด ojing-eo.
How do you say Bat in Korean?
Bat in Korean is ๋ฐ์ฅ bakjwi.
How do you say Seal in Korean?
Seal in Korean is ์กฐ๊ฐ jogae.
How do you say Butterfly in Korean?
Butterfly in Korean is ๋๋น nabi.
Are there Zodiac Animals in the Korean culture?
Yes, the zodiac animals in Korean culture are the same as the Chinese ones.
In order: Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake Horse, Goat, Rooster, Dog, Pig.
However their characteristics and said personalities might differ.
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