In this lesson, you will learn five characters related to water!
波 = 파 = wave
(물결 파)
Your first character in Unit 5! You see 波 used a lot in words related to physics, as there is a lot of content relating to waves in physics. Even if you don’t know anything about physics, you can probably guess what 波長 refers to, even if you don’t see the English translation!
波
熱波 = heat wave
光波 = light wave
音波 = sound wave
定재波 = standing wave
進行波 = traveling wave
波數 = wave number
波速 = wave speed
波動 = wave motion
電子波 = electromagnetic wave
重力波 = gravitational wave
水面波 = surface wave
주波數 = frequency
초音波 = ultrasound
波長 = wavelength
波도 = wave
汽 = 기 = steam
(물 끓는 김 기)
As you learned in Hanja Lesson 9, whenever you see 氵, the meaning of the character usually relates to water in some way. In the past, you have seen examples of this in 江, and 海.
汽
汽車 = train
汽車驛 = train station
汽船 = steamboat
汽壓 = pressure of steam
液 = 액 = fluid
(진 액)
There are a lot of technical words related to the fields of biology and chemistry that use 液. I will present these separately in the vocabulary below.
液
液體 = liquid
液量 = amount of liquid
血液 = blood
血液型 = blood type
液化 = turning to a liquid
Vocabulary related to biology and chemistry:
體液 = body fluid
림프液 = lymph
소화액 消化液 = digestive fluid
뇌척수液 = cerebrospinal fluid
위液 = gastric juice
용液 = solution
洋 = 양 = ocean
(큰 바다 양)
洋 is a Hanja character meaning ocean or vast sea. It appears in vocabulary related to oceans and, by extension, to Western culture and things introduced from abroad.
洋
西洋 = west (as a culture)
東洋 = east (as a culture)
洋食 = western food
大洋 = ocean
洋배추 = western cabbage
濕 = 습 = humid
(젖을 습)
濕 means wet, damp, or humid. It is used in vocabulary related to moisture and humidity.
濕
濕하다 = to be humid
濕氣 = humidity