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사방치기
sabangchigi
명사 · NIKL learner grade not listed
사방팔방
being in all directions; being all over the place; everywhere
명사 · Advanced · NIKL learner grade
사범
offense; crime; offender; violator
명사 · Advanced · NIKL learner grade
사법
justice; being judicial; being legal; law enforcement
명사 · Advanced · NIKL learner grade
사법권
judicial power; jurisdiction
명사 · Advanced · NIKL learner grade
사법부
judicial branch; the judiciary; the judicature
명사 · Advanced · NIKL learner grade
사변
big event; disaster
명사 · Advanced · NIKL learner grade
사변적
speculative; theoretical; conjectural
관형사 · Advanced · NIKL learner grade
사별
bereavement; separation by death
명사 · Advanced · NIKL learner grade
사별하다
be bereaved of; be separated from someone by death
동사 · Advanced · NIKL learner grade
사병
private; soldier; rank and file
명사 · Advanced · NIKL learner grade
사보
company newsletter; house organ; corporate magazine
명사 · Advanced · NIKL learner grade
사복
plain clothes; civilian clothes
명사 · Advanced · NIKL learner grade
사본
copy; transcript; duplicate
명사 · Advanced · NIKL learner grade
사부
master; teacher
명사 · Advanced · NIKL learner grade
사부님
teacher's husband
명사 · Advanced · NIKL learner grade
사분기
quarter
명사 · Advanced · NIKL learner grade
사비
personal spending
명사 · Advanced · NIKL learner grade
사뿐사뿐
lightly; softly
부사 · Advanced · NIKL learner grade
사뿐하다
(no equivalent expression)
형용사 · Advanced · NIKL learner grade
사뿐히
lightly
부사 · Advanced · NIKL learner grade
사사건건
in every way
부사 · Advanced · NIKL learner grade
사사로이
personally; privately
부사 · Advanced · NIKL learner grade
사사롭다
personal; private
형용사 · Advanced · NIKL learner grade
사사하다
look up to someone as one's teacher
동사 · Advanced · NIKL learner grade
사산
stillbirth
명사 · Advanced · NIKL learner grade
사산하다
have a stillbirth
동사 · Advanced · NIKL learner grade
사살
killing by shooting; being shot to death
명사 · Advanced · NIKL learner grade
사살당하다
be shot to death
동사 · Advanced · NIKL learner grade
사살되다
be shot to death
동사 · Advanced · NIKL learner grade
사살하다
kill by shooting
동사 · Advanced · NIKL learner grade
사상
being in history
명사 · Intermediate · NIKL learner grade
사상가
thinker
명사 · Advanced · NIKL learner grade
사상누각
house of cards; sand castle
명사 · Advanced · NIKL learner grade
사상범
political offender; political crime
명사 · Advanced · NIKL learner grade
사상자
casualty
명사 · Advanced · NIKL learner grade
사상적
ideological
명사 · Advanced · NIKL learner grade
사색
being deadly pale; being ghastly
명사 · Advanced · NIKL learner grade
사색적
being contemplative; being meditative
명사 · Advanced · NIKL learner grade
사색하다
contemplate; think; meditate
동사 · Advanced · NIKL learner grade
사생
life and death
명사 · Advanced · NIKL learner grade
사생결단
risking life; being desperate; being all or nothing
명사 · Advanced · NIKL learner grade
사생아
illegitimate child; child born out of wedlock
명사 · Advanced · NIKL learner grade
사생활
privacy; private life
명사 · Intermediate · NIKL learner grade
사서
librarian
명사 · Advanced · NIKL learner grade
사서함
post office box
명사 · Advanced · NIKL learner grade
사석
private occasion; informal occasion; being privately
명사 · Advanced · NIKL learner grade
사선
death throe; life-or-death situation
명사 · Advanced · NIKL learner grade
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Beginner, intermediate, and advanced are the National Institute of Korean Language’s learner vocabulary grades. They are not official TOPIK levels or a prediction of test difficulty.