Korean Counters (Nouns Classifiers)
NK + 시간
Counter for hours (duration)
NK + 통 (通)
Counters for letters, telegrams, calls, emails, documents
NK + 편
a counter for a movie, TV shows, novel, poem, etc.
NK + 포기
a counter for vegetables such as cabbage, lettuce, etc.
SK + 원
counter for Korean currency
NK + 모금
counter for a sip, breath, drag
SK + 탄
counter for a work in a series
SK + 세
counter for age (honorific)
NK + 살
counter for age (informal)
NK + 마리
counter for animals
SK + 조
counter for articles or clauses
NK + 권
counter for books and volumes
NK + 동
counter for buildings (houses, skyscrapers, etc.)
NK + 발
counter for bullets shells, arrows
NK + 다발
counter for bunches of flowers or plants
NK + 단
counter for bunches or bundles of onions, radishes, scallions, wood, fruits
SK + 촉
counter for candles
NK + 문
counter for cannons, artillery, big guns
NK + 푼
counter for cents
NK + 구
counter for corpses
NK + 개국
counter for countries
SK + 일
counter for days
SK + 촌
counter for degree of kinship
SK + 불
counter for dollars
SK + 회
counter for episodes
NK + 필지
counter for fields, housing sites, plots
SK + 층
counter for floors, layers
NK + 제
counter for for dosages of traditional medicine
NK + 판 (1)
counter for games won or lost
NK + 배
counter for glasses of alcoholic beverages
NK + 톨
counter for grains of uncooked rice, stones
NK + 방
counter for gun shots, rounds, cannon shots, jabs, explosives, photo shots, farts
NK +채
counter for houses
NK + 건
counter for incidents (e.g., accidents, crimes, occurrences)
NK + 줄
counter for lines of things aligned in a row (kimbap, trees, desks, chairs, etc)
SK + 분 (分)
counter for minutes
SK + 개월
counter for months
NK + 옴큼
counter for number of handfuls
NK + 과
counter for number of lessons
NK + 매
counter for number of sheets of paper, photos, stamps
NK + 번
counter for number of times
NK + 탕
counter for number of times doing something, number of trips made
SK + 주기
counter for number of years since a person's death
NK + 뼘
counter for numbers of spans of the hand
NK + 첩 (貼)
counter for packs of Korean herbal medicine
NK + 쪽
counter for pages, pieces of small things
SK + 범
counter for penalties for major crimes
NK + 분
counter for people (honorific)
NK + 명
counter for people (informal)
NK + 송이
counter for picked flowers, bunches of fruits
NK + 점
counter for pieces of art, pieces of flesh, drops of rain, number of stones in a game of Go,
NK + 알
counter for pills
NK + 정
counter for pills, medicine tablets
NK + 판 (2)
counter for pizzas, plates, cakes
NK + 개소
counter for places
NK + 군데
counter for places and spots
NK + 수 (首)
counter for poems, songs
SK + 점 (點)
counter for points, grade
SK + 위
counter for rank
NK + 해
counter for revolutions around the sun
NK + 고랑
counter for ridges made by plows for planting crops
SK + 호
counter for room number or house number
SK + 실
counter for rooms
SK + 학년
counter for school grade
SK + 교시
counter for school periods
SK + 석
counter for seats
SK + 초
counter for seconds
NK + 척
counter for ships or boats
NK + 술
counter for spoonfuls of food
NK + 발짝
counter for steps
NK + 장
counter for thin flat objects (of paper, cloth, postcards, etc.)
NK + 개
counter for things
NK + 자루
counter for things with long handles (writing instruments, shovels, swords, rifles, knives, pistols)
SK + 무
counter for ties in a game
SK + 선
counter for times elected to office
NK + 그루
counter for trees, plants, crops,
NK + 바퀴
counter for turns around something
NK + 수 (手)
counter for turns taken in Janggi or Go
NK + 필
counter for uncut fabric, horse
NK + 대
counter for vehicles and other machinery
SK + 승
counter for victories
NK + 통
counter for watermelons
SK + 개년
counter for years
SK + 년
counter for years
SK + 주일
counter fro weeks
SK + 교
counter of times a draft has been proofread
SK + 과
marks lesson number
NK + 시
marks o'clock
SK + 집
marks publication number
SK + 월
names months
