Calendar Numbers In Korean

In the sino system to eliminate confusions between 1 and 2 sometimes native numbers are used.

Calendar numbers in korean. It s a very useful system. From 1952 until 1961 in south korea gregorian calendar years were counted from the foundation of gojoseon in 2333 bce regarded as year one the date of the legendary founding of korea by dangun hence these dangi 단기 years were 4285 to 4294. After 99 native korean numbers are no longer in use so you don t need to know them.

The calendar began to be implemented on 9 september 1997 the day of the foundation of the republic. Thus the current year 2020 is juche 109 the next year 2021 will be juche 110 and so on. Numbers are essential in becoming familiar with a new language and korean is no different.

This numbering was informally used with the korean lunar calendar before 1945 but has only been occasionally used since 1961 and mostly in north korea prior to 1997. The year 2017 is 2017년 이천십칠 년 in korean. The following tables list both starting with the days of the week.

English korean translation pronunciation monday woryoil wo ryo il tuesday hwayoil hwa yo il wednesday suyoil soo yo il thursday mogyoil mo gyo il friday geumyoil geu myo il. In sino korean numbers we do this same stacking method all the way up to 100. The following table shows the basic numbers from 1 to 20 along with the decade numbers to 100 in both korean and sino korean.

Part of korean for dummies cheat sheet. The birth year of kim il sung 1912 in the gregorian calendar became juche 1 in the north korean calendar. In the sino korean number system 세 is used to talk about age.

Ex 2016년 이천십육 년 year 2016. So the only new word you need to learn to count to 100 is well 100.