White Belt (10 Kup)

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In Korean there are two spoken ways to describe numbers:

Hangul – Native Korean numbers

Hanja – Sino (Chinese)-Korean

Hanja is the Korean name for Chinese characters borrowed from Chinese and incorporated into the Korean language with Korean pronunciation. Although a phonetic Korean alphabet, now known as Hangul, had been created by a team of scholars commissioned in the 1440s by King Sejong the Great, it did not come into widespread use until the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Sino-Korean numbers are numbers that are based on the Chinese language so if you speak Chinese, you will find that spoken Sino-Korean numbers are quite similar.

Cardinal Numbers

1-10

1 One 하나 (Ha-Na)

2 Two 둘 (dool)

3 Three 셋 (seht)

4 Four 넷 (neht)

5 Five 다섯 (da-Sut)

6 Six 여섯 (yuh-Suht)

7 Seven 일곱 (il-gohp)

8 Eight 여덟 (yuh-dul)

9 Nine 아홉 (ah-hope)

10 Ten 열 (yul)

11 – 20

11 열하나 (yul-hana)

12 열둘 (yul-dool)

13 열셋 (yul-seht)

14 열넷 (yul-neht)

15 열다섯 (yul-da-shut)

16 열여섯 (yul-yuh-suht)

17 열일곱 (yul-il-gohp)

18 열여덟 (yul-yuh-dul)

19 열아홉 (yul-ah-hope)

20 스물 (seu-mul)

30 – 10,000

30 서른 (suh-ruhn)

40 마흔 (mah-heun)

50 쉰 (shin)

60 예순 (yeah-soon)

70 일흔 (ill-heun)

80 여든 (yuh-dun)

90 아흔 (ah-hun)

100 백 (baek)

1,000 천 (chun)

10,000 만 (mahn)

Ordinal Numbers

1 – 10

1 First 일 (il)

2 Second 이 (ee)

3 Third 삼 (sahm)

4 Fourth 사 (sah)

5 Fifth 오 (oh)

6 Sixth 육 (yooc)

7 Seventh 칠 (chil)

8 Eighth 팔 (pahl)

9 Ninth 구 (gooh)

10 Tenth 십 (ship)

11 Eleventh 십일 (ship-il)

20 Twentieth 이십 (ee-ship)

31 Thirty-first 삼십일 (sahm-ship-il)

43 Forty-third 사십삼 (sah-ship-sahm)

54 Fifty-fourth 오십사 (oh-ship-sah)

65 Sixty-fifth 육십오 (yooc-ship-oh)

76 Seventy-sixth 칠십육 (chil-ship-yooc)

87 Eighty-seventh 팔십칠 (pahl-ship-chil)

98 Ninety-eighth 구십팔 (gooh-ship-pahl)

 It seems daunting at first to try and memorize them all so break it down into small chunks and do a little bit each day!