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Friday, December 30, 2011

When it comes to currency/money?

안녕하세요 여러분..


The last time I talked about numbers was here . If you can still recall there are two types of korean numbers, one is native korean numbers another is sino-korean numbers. So which one do we us when it comes to counting our money or when paying the shopkeeper in Korean?

We use Sino-Korean numbers!!!

Well let us refresh our brain with Sino-Korean numbers first before we go detail..

1 - 일
2 - 이
3 - 삼
4 - 사
5 - 오
6 - 육
7 - 칠
8 - 팔
9 - 구
10 - 십
11 - 십일 <10 (십) + 1 (일) = sib il>
12 - 십이
13 - 십삼
14 - 십사
20 - 이십 <2 (이) + 10 (십) = 20 (이십)> You get the idea..
21 - 이십일 <2 (이) + 10 (십) + 1 (일) = 21 (이십일)>
22 - 이십이
23 - 이십삼
24 - 이십사
30 - 삼십 <3(삼) + 10(십) = 30 (삼십) >
40 - 사십
100 - 백
101 - 백일 < 100(백) + 1(일) = 101 (백일)>
102 - 백이
103 - 백삼
104 - 백사
1000 - 천
1001 - 천일
1002 - 천이
1003 - 천삼
2000 - 이천
3000 -삼천
10,000 - 만
10,001 - 만일
10,002 - 만이
20,000 - 이만
30,000 - 삼만
100,000 - 십만 <10(십) + 10,000(만) = 100,000(십만)>
200,000 - 이십만
1 million - 백만

got it??... if theres some part that confuses use, dont hesitate to ask away in the comment box : )

so when you want to say..... maybe 10,490 won.. it would be 만사백구십원..
만(10,000)사백(400)구십(90)원(won)..

So what about 11,500 won???

it would be, 만천오백원... 만천(11,000)오백(500)원


hope that helps... happy new year 2012 : ) 새해 복 많이 받으세요