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Like Japanese and Chinese, Korean uses special measure or counting words to count objects and events.

In English, one must say, "two sheets of paper" rather than "two papers". In Korean, the term jang (장) is used to count sheets, or paper-like material in general. So "ten bus tickets" would be beoseu pyo yeol jang (버스 표 열 장), literally, "bus ticket ten 'sheets'".

There are two systems of numerals in Korean: native Korean and Sino-Korean. Native Korean numerals are used with most counter words. yeol gwa (열 과) would mean 'ten lessons' while sip gwa (십 과) would mean 'lesson ten.' Sino-Korean numerals are used with many time counters.

Examples

A few counter words:
  • beol (벌) -- items of clothing
  • bun (분) -- people (polite)
  • cheok (척) -- boats and ships
  • chae (채) -- houses
  • dae (대) -- vehicles (cars, airplanes) and machinery
  • dan (단) -- bunches of Welsh onions, green onions
  • gae (개) -- 'things' in general, can be used if you're not sure which specific counting word to use.
  • geuru (그루) -- trees
  • gwa (과) -- lessons
  • gwon (권) -- books
  • jang (장) -- paper
  • jaru (자루) -- things with long handles (writing instruments, shovels, swords, and rifles), and by extension, knives and pistols
  • kyeolle (켤레) -- gloves and socks
  • mari (마리) -- animals
  • myeong (명) -- people (informal)
  • pil (필) -- uncut fabric
  • pogi (포기) -- Chinese cabbages
  • pun (푼) -- pennies
  • song-i (송이) -- picked flowers
  • song-i (송이) -- bunches of grapes, bunches of bananas
  • tong (통) -- letters, telegrams, telephone calls, and e-mail
  • tong (통) -- watermelons
Some nouns can also function as counter words:
  • byeong (병) -- bottles
  • cheung (층) -- floors (of a building), layers
  • gok (곡) -- songs
  • jan (잔) -- cups and glasses
  • madi (마디) -- phrases, joints, and musical measures
  • saram (사람) -- people (informal)
  • tong (통) -- containers, buckets
Some words are used for counting in multiples:
  • jeop (접) -- one hundred dried persimmons
  • jul (줄) -- ten eggs
  • ko (코) -- twenty octopuses
  • pan (판) -- thirty eggs
  • son (손) -- two fish (typically mackerels or yellow croakers)
  • taseu (타스) -- dozens of pencils
  • tot (톳) -- one hundred sheets of lavers

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Measure words, in linguistics, are words (or morphemes) that are used in combination with a numeral to indicate the count of nouns. Measure words often classify the noun they modify into some semantic class and consequently measure words are considered numeral classifiers
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