The Korean House - Glossary

GLOSSARY

anchae: a main quarters for the family, main quarters or women’s quarters

anhaengnang: female servants’ quarters located in main quarters or women’s quarters

agungi: furnace

apateu: apartment

buttumak: a fireplace with cooking pit, worked by lighting a fire in the agungi which would heat up a pot installed right above the fires of agungi

cheok (尺): measurement unit, similar to a foot

daecheong (大廳): a maru hall located at the center of the house. / main wooden-floored hall

gongpo (栱包): wooden brackets, installed at the end of the eaves for structural reinforcement as well as for decoration

gulpijip: oak-bark-roofed house

haengnangchae: servants’ quarters

hanok (韓屋): a traditional Korean house</p> <p class="s77" style="padding-left: 5pt;text-indent: 0pt;text-align: left;"><i>jangdokdae: platforms for storing and preserving foods such as sauces and condiments in clay pots

jeongja (亭子): a pavilion

jeongsa (精舍): study halls

maru: wooden floor

Munhwa Jutaek (文化住宅): literally “culture house,” an ideal modern house that adopted the urbanized, westernized lifestyle in early 1900s

neowajip: shingled house

numaru: a raised wooden floor or a loft ondol (溫突): floor heating system pyeong (坪): area unit, about 3.3㎡

sadang (祠堂): ancestral shrine

sarangchae: a detached quarters for an upper-class man / men’s quarters.

seodang (書堂): village school

seowon (書院): Confucian academy

Siheyuan (四合院): Chinese quadrangle / several small buildings positioned around a courtyard to form a house

toenmaru: a narrow wooden floor placed before a room

ttwarijip: ring-shaped house udegijip: walled house wondumak: a lookout shed yangtongjip: two-layered house yeokanjip: six-bay house

yeondol (煙突): horizontal flues installed beneath the floor