I thought this might come in handy. I found it confusing when I started learning Korean. The simple mistake ended up costing me...literally!

10 = Shib

100 = Beck

1,000 = Cheon

10,000 = Mahn

100,000 = Shib-Mahn

1,000,000 = Beck-Mahn

Notice the pattern emerging...try keeping in mind that "Mahn" is ten thousand and not thousand; or four zero's (digits) and not three. The commas behind the digits also tend to throw people off.

10,000,000 = Cheon-Mahn

100,000,000 = Eok

1,000,000,000 = Shib-Eok

10,000,000,000 = Beck-Eok

100,000,000,000 = Cheon-Eok

The "Eok" is eight zeros (digits) after the first number.

1,000,000,000,000 = Jo

...

And so on.

I don't know the term beyond "Jo".

Good info on Numbers! Welcome home Lurker- contribute your expertise anytime! I started out at Osan years ago. Been in and out for more years than most of you have lived!
here are two good sites for counting and numbers [And learning to read & write, something I continue to say you can do in a few days!]
go to: learnkorean.com/k4fun/k4fun_life_NM.asp
also see: download.com/ReadWrite-Korean/3000-2279_4-10030120.html
(I left out the http//www because that caused an underline, which changed
your ability to see the underscores(_) and dropped out numbers in the second site.) good luck!







there are others, but these have sound for best pronunciation!

Joe, you should ad those sites to our links directory under learn Korean!

Mike

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