I don't really recall hearing it said this way when I was young. I'm not too sure of how widely spread this usage is. One final note: quick googling indicates that the ponytail can simply be referred to as 포니테일 po-ni-teh-il - just the transliteration of the actual English sound. Pigtail: 양 갈래로 묶은 머리 'hair tied in two bundles'īraided pigtail: 양 갈래로 딴 머리 'hair braided in two bundles' 딴 meaning 'braided', from 땋다 'to braid' If you wanted to be more descriptive, you would say the following: 뒤로 묶은 머리 'hair tied to the back' or 한 갈래로 묶은 머리 'hair tied in a single bundle.'

Ponytail: 묶은 머리 mu-kun muh-ri 'tied-up hair' 묶은 meaning 'tied', from 묶다 'to tie'īy default, it is understood that any kind of tied-up hair refers to the regular ponytail. The Qing emperors took clothing and hair very seriously as ways of defining groups under the empire. Instead, people typically take the word 머리 muh-ri 'hair' (sorry, can't figure out how to type IPA on here) and modify it in various ways, i.e.:

This is corroborated by my English-Korean dictionary, which gives a description of what the hairdo looks like in the case of the ponytail, and provides the literal translation of a pig's tail in the case of the pigtail.

Best answer: As far as I know, there is no specific term for ponytail or pigtail in Korean. Excessively long hair, long and flowing articles of clothing, and/or accessories must be. For several hundred years, between the 1600s and the early 20th century, men in China wore their hair in what is called a queue.

Queue hair bound foot