How to count Korean numbers – 한자어

Do you want to learn how to count Korean numbers

In two lessons, you’ll learn the Korean number system and how to count and use all the numbers, so let’s get started!

Korean Numbers System

The Korean has two number systems.

The first is the sino-Korean numbers system, the second is the native Korean numbers system.

The Sino-Korean numbers system comes from the Chinese number system and has been around for a long time.

The reason for these two number systems is that before Hangul was created, Korea used Chinese characters, a language that was created in China. King Sejong the Great later created Hangul, but some Chinese characters are still used today, and the Sino-Korean Numbers System is one of them.

In this lesson, we’ll learn all about Sino-Korean Numbers.

Sino-Korean Numbers Chart

Let’s look at the numbers from 1 to 100 billion through charts.

How to count 1 to 10 in Korean

I’ve already introduced numbers from 1 to 10 in the chart above, but let’s take a closer look at how to count numbers from 1 to 10.

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We’ll talk about the rules later, but if you memorize the numbers 1 through 10, you can say the numbers 1 through 99 without having to learn them, as long as you know the rules.

You can find out why in ‘The rule of Sino Korean System’.

How to count 11 to 20 in Korean

Let’s count numbers from 11 to 20.

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I already introduced it in the chart above, but the reason I count the numbers up to 20 again is because you can understand the rules.

So let’s find out.

The rule of Sino-Korean System.

Let’s take a look at the number 16.

The number 16 is by adding 10 and 6.

So how do you read the number 10? 십

And how do you read the number 6? 육

This is the rule of Korean numbers. It’s so simple that it may seem futile, but in Korean, you can read and use all the numbers if you just memorize a few numbers.

So let’s read the other numbers we didn’t learn from the chart above.

Let’s break down the rules above for easy understanding.

How to count Korean numbers

1. Read the numbers sequentially from left to right.
2. Read the number representing the number of digits in the number. (example : tens place)

You can read any number if you know the above two rules.

You can read any number if you know the above two rules.

In the chart above, you have already learned the big numbers like hundred, thousand, ten thousand, and billion.

So, if you know the rule you just learned and these big numbers, you can read most of them now.

In Korean, there are The Sino-Korean numbers and native words, so the usage between the two is also different.

In this class, since we are studying The Sino-Korean numbers, we will study the cases in which The Sino-Korean numbers are used.

How to say phone number in Korean

Phone number is counted using The Sino-Korean numbers.

So let’s practice with a few phone numbers as examples.

When counting phone numbers, read them the same way you would read phone numbers in English.

How to say the days in Korean

Dates are read with The Sino-Korean numbers system.

I’ll do a separate post about the date later, but I’ll cover it here as well.

First of all, ‘월’ means month in Korean, and ‘일’ means day in Korean.

In Korea, we say month and then day.

The order of saying dates differs from many other countries.

So let’s read some dates right away.

How to count money

Now let’s see how to count money.

Korea is using the currency unit called 원(won). So when counting money, you only need to count the numbers and add ‘원(won)’ at the end.

So let’s go right through a few examples.

So today we learned how to count numbers in Korean, next time we’ll learn how to count numbers with the native Korean numbers system.