If you’re coming to Korea, you will probably have plenty of opportunity to text in Korean. But even if you don’t care to learn how to text in Korean, these little Korean texting slang tidbits will do wonders in understanding your Korean friends via text. Learn these Korean texting slang, and you just might make your Korean friends chuckle π
This Korean slang term doesn’t necessarily have a meaning. It’s mostly used to express a mild shock or surprise and at times disappointment. This is mainly used as a non-positive response.
Korean texting example #1:
A: μ΄λμΌ? (Where are you?)
B: μ§, μ? (Home, why?)
A: ν… λ§λκΈ°λ‘ νμμ (heol, we were supposed to meet)
Korean texting example #2:
A: 머리 λ°μ΄λ²λ Έμ΄! (I shaved my head!)
B: ν… (heol)
Korean texting example #3:
A: λΉλκΈ° λ¨Ήμλ€!! (I ateΒ pigeon!!)
B: ν… (heol…)
Note: This texting slang is age sensitive. It is spoken (mostly by very young people), but ν (heol) can be seen in Korean texts used by people up to their late 20’s.
Many Korean texters like to use the least amount of finger movement as possible. And this is totally true with the Korean word for yes/ok, μ (eung). Instead of wasting precious energy by typing the extra vowel γ ‘ (eu), people just omit it totally and text γ γ .
Korean texting example #1:
A: λ°₯ λ¨Ήμμ΄? (Did you eat?)
B: γ
γ
(yes)
Korean texting example #2:
A: 빨리 μ! (Hurry and come!)
B: γ
γ
(ok)
TheΒ equivalentΒ of “haha” or “hehe,” people use γ γ (kk) or γ γ (hh) to not necessarily show real laughter but more as a text filler to make their texts in Korean friendlierΒ or lighter. But if someone manages to make a super hilarious joke via text, many people use νΈνν (puhaha) to show that there is actual laughter (or at least giggling) going on.
Korean texting example #1:
A: νκ΅ μ κ°μ΄ γ
γ
(I didn’t go to school haha)
Korean texting example #2:
A: λλ λ°₯ λ¨Ήμλ? (Do you want to eat with me?)
B: μ.. λ³λ‘ γ
γ
(Umm.. not really haha)
Korean texting example #3:
A: λ μ€λ μ리ν΄μ€κΉ?? (Should I make you food today?)
B: νΈνν λμ΄ (puhaha no thanks)
This is the Korean texting equivalent of shortening “Monday” to “Mon” which is always useful for all the world’s lazy Korean texters. This can be used for any day of the week, essentially the latter part of μμΌ (yoil) is shortened to μ (yol).
Korean texting example #1:
A: μμ λ§λ κΉ? (Should we meet mon?)
B: λͺ©μ 보μ (Lets meet thur)
Have any more Korean texting terms to add? Feel free to add in the comment section!
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I’ve encountered with so many more!!! Like, uh… For all the γ in the past tense they would shorten it to γ .
Like νμ΄ -> νμ΄ / κ°μ΄-> κ°μ΄
And other most common short forms I’ve always seen:
μν λ΄ -> μν λ°
…μ΄μμ -> …μ΄μμ
λλ¬Έμ -> λμ
λ무 -> λ
And they make their texts cute by ending with many γ and γ s..
Like μ€λΉ€ λ°₯λ¨Ήμμ?? Or μ κ·μΌ!!
Omg there’s too many I almost made a blog post here haha π
Sandra, write a guest post!!!! hahaha π Thanks for all the additions
Besides γ γ people also use γ γ for OK, γ =o γ =k.
Then… γ³ for κ°μ¬ (κ°μ¬ν©λλ€)
And… γ γ (bb) for bye-bye! ^^
FYI, speaking of shortening, b (γ ) and s (γ ) is the most dangerous combination.
γ γ (becomes γ ) and γ γ is used to insulting. λ³μ and μ¨λ° respectively. :p
Don’t use them since those are very rude. At least now you know when someone use that to you, he/she is pretty upset with you. π
Other ones:
κΈμΏ λ – κ·Έλ ꡬλ
μΌμΌ – μ΄λ κ²
γ γ – tears for sad face
γ γ – actually people use it alot but some girls take offense to it if you’re their boyfriend since they think you’re not paying enough attention to them.
please post more korean slang!! I want to learn more haha~ It’s so funny π
“λΉλκΈ°” μλͺ» μΌλλ°…”
I’m sorry I don’t have any to add but I want to say that your information is interesting haha
And mostly any Korean info is interesting to me cuz I do not know anything really about Koreans puhaha
they use μΈ to replace μ°λ¦¬ if i’m not mistaken. like μΈμ€λΉ instead of μ°λ¦¬ μ€λΉ . and i’ve also seen something like this: for example if the name is νμ°¬, they use νμ°¨λ ΈλΉ instead of νμ°¬μ€λΉ . are these just typos bc they missed that one letter or are these really korean text slang? because i’m still learning and i don’t know mostly anything yet. XD
Hello is there any one who wanna be my friend? π
where are you? ^^
μλ νμΈμ~~~~
I have a question!! I’m chatting with a korean girl on kakao talk-she’s in my ballett class :))
and she wrote “μ μ ” what does that means??? please help me. thank you ~~~
μ μ is similar to μμ which means yes or i agree. μ μ is just a cuter way of saying μμ
Hello I wanna learn Korean language .
What is this means
How are you… Bb
λ§λκΈ°λ‘ νμμ . translates to ” you were supposed to meet HIM” NOT ” we were supposed to meet” the translation you used was wrong, I’m saying this because I looked at all the translations for this sentence they are the same plus one very important help is my friend who is korean native.
Thanks a lot!
That’s actually useful, thanks! I can say that not so long ago, I started to learn French with Lingopie besides Korean, and there are even more slang words and phrases that can be quite hard to understand. But I’m glad that it’s not a problem to find such useful forums to figure out such aspects and improve language skills.
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