Basic Korean Dictionary () is an
online
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learner's dictionary of the
Korean language
Korean is the first language, native language for about 81 million people, mostly of Koreans, Korean descent. It is the national language of both South Korea and North Korea. In the south, the language is known as () and in the north, it is kn ...
, launched on 5 October 2016 by the
National Institute of Korean Language
The National Institute of Korean Language (NIKL; ) is a language regulator of the Korean language based in Seoul, South Korea. It was created on January 23, 1991, by Presidential Decree No. 13163 (November 14, 1990).
It has previously gone by a ...
.
It consists of one
monolingual
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and ten
bilingual dictionaries that provide meanings of Korean words and expressions in Korean,
English,
Arabic
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,
French,
Indonesian,
Japanese,
Mongolian,
Russian,
Spanish,
Thai, and
Vietnamese.
Multilingual support
* Korean: Basic Korean dictionary
* Korean–English: Korean–English Learners' Dictionary
* Korean–Arabic:
* Korean–French:
* Korean–Indonesian:
* Korean–Japanese:
* Korean–Mongolian:
* Korean–Russian:
* Korean–Spanish:
* Korean–Thai:
* Korean–Vietnamese:
See also
*
Standard Korean Language Dictionary
References
External links
*
Korean dictionaries
Online dictionaries
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