Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Korean Counter Words, 수분류사 (數分類詞)

These are used to count nouns and are placed after the numbers. The nearest equivalent in English would be something like "three head of cattle".

가지 kinds, varieties, sorts
갑 pack (cigarettes), box
개 general counter; can be used if you don't know which
specific counting word to employ
개월 month duration (Sino-Korean)
건 agenda items, assembly bills, incidents
곡 songs, music pieces
과 lessons, chapters
군데 places, institutions
권 books
그루 trees, rice plants, shrubs\
그릇/공기/접시 food (vessel, bowl, dish)
끼/끼니 meal
년 years (Sino-Korean)
다발 Bunch of flower
단 bunches/ bundles (radishes, scallions, wood, fruit)
달 month duration (Pure Korean)
달러, 센트 dollars, cents (English) (Sino-Korean counter)
대 vehicles (cars, airplanes) and machinery
대, 개비 tiny slender objects (cigarettes, matches, etc.)
대 injections, beatings
도 Degree (temperature) (Sino-Korean)
마디 phrases, joints, and musical measures
마리 animals
매 sheets of paper (formal/written form)
명 people (informal)
모 tofu, i.e. Block ,square, piece, cake
모금 a sip, a puff (water, cigarette)
문 artillery piece
벌 items of clothing, sets (chopsticks, dishes, documents, clothes, furniture, tools, cards)
병 bottles of liquid
봉지 paper bags
부 newspaper (or books if bought multiple copies) , printed copies (thesis, report, etc.), volume (of a book, magazine,etc.)
분 people (polite)
분 servings of food (Sino-Korean)
분 minute (Sino-Korean)
불, 전 dollars, cents (Sino-Korean)
사람 people (informal)
살/ 세 year (age)
상자 box, chest
손 two fish (typically mackerels or yellow croakers)
송이 picked flowers, bunches of grapes, bunches of bananas
숟갈, 젓갈 a bite, spoonful (rice, etc.)
시 hour (time. O'clock)
시간 hour (duration)
쌍 a couple, a pair (animate things)
알 eggs, pills, potatoes, candy
원 won (Sino-Korean)
월 month (of the year) (Sino-Korean)
일 day (Sino-Korean)
자루 things with long handles (writing instruments, shovels, swords, and rifles), and by extension, knives and pistols
잔/컵 cups, glasses
장 paper, sheets, leaf (flat objects such stamps, paper, tickets, etc.)
점 pieces of art
접 one hundred dried persimmons
접시 main dish
줄 ten eggs
짝 one of a pair (ie. a shoe, a chopstick)
쪽 small slice (apple, garlic)"
채 house/buildings
척 boats and ships
첩 pack of herbal medicine
초 second (Sino-Korean)
층 floors (of a building Sino-Korean?, layers
컬레 pair (gloves, socks, shoes)
코 twenty octopuses
타스 dozens of pencils
통 letters, telegrams, telephone calls, and e-mail, rolls of film, and also for buckets of water and watermelons
판 thirty eggs
포기 Chinese cabbages
푼 pennies
편 movies, poems, musicals
필 one animal (head of cow, horse, etc.), roll of cloth
해 years
회 exercise, writings, repetitions, innings, sorties, times, rounds


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