Template:U:ko:gender words

Korean has a number of words equivalent to English "man" and "woman".


 * 1) Sino-Korean  and  are the most common words, but can have a somewhat informal connotation.
 * 2) Sino-Korean   and  refer to men and women as groups—though pluralized  and  is informally more common for this purpose—or to individual adult men and women in formal or polite contexts.
 * 3) Sino-Korean  is literary. There is no male counterpart.
 * 4) The bare Sino-Korean morphemes  and  is generally used in formal contexts, especially when referring to each gender as a collective but also for male or female individuals in more legalistic contexts. They are commonly written in hanja even when the rest of the text is in pure Hangul script.
 * 5) Native  and  are not as commonly used.  often has a connotation of machismo or manliness, while  has become offensive and derogatory.
 * 1) Sino-Korean  is literary. There is no male counterpart.
 * 2) The bare Sino-Korean morphemes  and  is generally used in formal contexts, especially when referring to each gender as a collective but also for male or female individuals in more legalistic contexts. They are commonly written in hanja even when the rest of the text is in pure Hangul script.
 * 3) Native  and  are not as commonly used.  often has a connotation of machismo or manliness, while  has become offensive and derogatory.
 * 1) The bare Sino-Korean morphemes  and  is generally used in formal contexts, especially when referring to each gender as a collective but also for male or female individuals in more legalistic contexts. They are commonly written in hanja even when the rest of the text is in pure Hangul script.
 * 2) Native  and  are not as commonly used.  often has a connotation of machismo or manliness, while  has become offensive and derogatory.
 * 1) Native  and  are not as commonly used.  often has a connotation of machismo or manliness, while  has become offensive and derogatory.

Note that in Early Modern Korean (1600—c. 1900) and in contemporary Standard North Korean, Sino-Korean is written and pronounced, hence , ,.