Category:Korean terms by usage

Korean terms categorized by the manner and context in which they are used by speakers.

• Category:Korean archaic terms: Korean terms that are no longer in general use but still encountered in older literature and still sometimes used for special effect.
• Category:Korean childish terms: Korean terms that are typically only used by, or to, children.
• Category:Korean colloquialisms: Korean terms that are likely to be used primarily in casual conversation rather than in more formal written works, speeches, and discourse.
• Category:Korean dated terms: Korean terms that are no longer fashionable, thus are anachronistic.
• Category:Korean derogatory terms: Korean terms that are intended to disparage, demean, insult or offend.
• Category:Korean dialectal terms: Korean terms that are not used in standard language but only in dialects.
• Category:Korean ecclesiastical terms: Korean terms used only by religious figures.
• Category:Korean endearing terms: Korean terms that are used to show affection or endearment to another person.
• Category:Korean familiar terms: Korean terms whose use is typically to contexts of friendly intimacy.
• Category:Korean formal terms: Korean terms whose use is typically restricted to polite, ceremonious, non-casual contexts.
• Category:Korean hapax legomena: Korean terms that are attested only once in the entire corpus.
• Category:Korean higher register terms: Korean terms belonging to a higher linguistic register, such as literary terms; such terms are somewhat less common or known.
• Category:Korean historical terms: Korean terms that refer to obsolete things or concepts.
• Category:Korean honorific terms: Korean honorific terms, which are used to show deference and respect.
• Category:Korean humorous terms: Korean terms that are humorous, amusing or joking.
• Category:Korean informal terms: Korean terms whose use is typically restricted to casual, non‐ceremonious conversations.
• Category:Korean men's speech terms: Korean terms and forms used in men's speech.
• Category:Korean nonstandard terms: Korean terms that are considered improper, incorrect or commonly misused.
• Category:Korean obsolete terms: Korean terms that are no longer in current use, but found in older texts.
• Category:Korean offensive terms: Korean terms that are typically considered to offend people.
• Category:Korean officialese terms: Korean terms that are chiefly used by official sources, and are often bureaucratic-sounding.
• Category:Korean placeholder terms: Korean terms used to refer to items for which one does not know or cannot recall the name, or is unable to or does not care to specify precisely.
• Category:Korean poetic terms: Korean terms whose usage is typically restricted to works of poetry.
• Category:Korean polite terms: Korean polite terms, which are used to show deference and respect.
• Category:Korean proscribed terms: Korean terms whose usage is proscribed; thus, they are considered wrong according to prescriptive sources.
• Category:Korean royal terms: Korean terms used only by royalty.
• Category:Korean self-deprecatory terms: Korean self-deprecatory terms.
• Category:Korean short forms: Korean terms that are short forms of other terms, often used informally.
• Category:Korean slang: Korean colloquial terms that are typically used to mark membership in a cultural subgroup.
• Category:Korean superseded forms: Korean forms that have been superseded by other forms due to changes in spelling conventions.
• Category:Korean technical terms: Korean terms that are usually or exclusively used in technical/scientific writing.
• Category:Korean terms with archaic senses: Korean terms that are no longer in general use but still encountered in older literature and still sometimes used for special effect.
• Category:Korean terms with historical senses: Korean terms with senses that refer to things or concepts mainly known for their historical value.
• Category:Korean terms with obsolete senses: Korean terms that are no longer in current use, but found in older texts.
• Category:Korean terms with rare senses: Korean rarely used terms or terms with rarely used senses.
• Category:Korean terms with transferred senses: Korean terms with transferred senses.
• Category:Korean terms with uncertain meaning: Korean terms whose meaning is unknown or disputed.
• Category:Korean terms with uncommon senses: Korean uncommonly used terms or terms with uncommonly used senses.
• Category:Korean trademarks: Korean terms that identify legal entities, their products and services, by means of legal protection — to some extent, in a number of jurisdictions — against unauthorized use of the terms.
• Category:Korean uncommon terms: Korean uncommonly used terms.
• Category:Korean vulgarities: Korean terms whose tone (rather than the meaning) is offensive to polite company.
• Category:Korean women's speech terms: Korean terms and forms used in women's speech.