# Posted: 12 Nov 2006 14:32 KST - Edited by: jcs
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Pure Korean Numbers
1 하나
2 둘
3 셋 but 세 시 ( 3 o'clock)
4 넷 but 네시 (4 o'clock)
5 다섯
6 여섯
7 일곱
8 여덟 (the final ㅂ is not pronounced, so it sounds like 여덜) (also, do not confuse this with 여든 which is pure korean for 80 ... as in, 80 years old, e.g. 여든까지)
9 아홉 (나는 열아홉살 - I am 19)
10 열
20 스물 (I am 23 years old --- 나는 스물세살이다)
스무 명
30 서른 (I am 37 -- 나는 서른일곱살이에요)
40 마흔
50 쉰
60 예순
70 일흔
80 여든 !
90 아흔
Sino - Korean Numbers
youtube.com -- watch her fingers and try to do that, that's harder than learning the numbers
1 일
2 이
3 삼
4 사
5 오
6 육
7 칠
8 팔
9 구
10 십
100 백 one hundred
1,000 천 one thousand
10,000 만 ten-thousand
십만 100,000
백만 1,000,000 one million
천만 10,000,000 ten million
일억(億) 100,000,000 100 million
십억 one billion 1,000,000,000
* 십억 is important because that's considered 1 million dollars and that is the landmark figure for all of us in terms of personal wealth.
백억 10,000,000 ten billion
천억 100,000,000 one hundred billion
일조(兆) 1,000,000,000 one trilllion
* 1 경(京) = 1 0000 조 = 1016
reading phone numbers
http://learnkorean.blogsome.com/2007/05/07/number-lesson-6-more-use-with-sino-korean-number/
reading money and big numbers
만원 == 10,000 won ~ 10 USD
Note that we do not say 일만원 just 만원
Recommendation: When talking money in Korea, just make it easy and say 10 to mean both 만원 and 10 USD. You can forget about all those big numbers that way. it works on the street and with foreigners and your Korean friends alike.
the names for thousand, hundred, ten thousand etc already have the #1 in them, so 일백 is just 백 일천 isjust 천 일만 is just 만.
십만: 100,000 ~ 100 USD
백만: one million; 1,000,000 Won ~ 1,000 USD
My monthly salary is 2.2 million ~ 2,300 USD
천만원: 10,000,000 Won ~ 10,000 USD
I can buy this officetel for 육천만원 ~ 60 thousand dollars
1억: 100,000,000 which is hundreds of thousands of dollars
일억: 1억
... yes, for 억 we need the 일
육억: 600,000 USD
10억: one million USD or 1 billion WON.
above the 10억 I really don't know those very clearly .... but there is 백억, 천억 .... and then ..............
when 노태우 was president of Korea, he wriggled another 1천6백억원 in tax income from Hyundai group. How many dollars is that? 1천6백억
억: 100,000,000
6백억: 60,000,000,000 ten billion
1천백억 is 160 billion won. divide by roughly 1,000 gives 160 million dollars.
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