The Korean House - Glossary
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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
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
