Lesson 5
Lesson 5. Big Numbers in Korean
In English and many other languages, numbers are grouped by powers of 1,000. But in Korean, Chinese and Japanese, big numbers are grouped by powers of 10,000.
백 [baek] 100 hundred
천 [cheon] 1,000 thousand
만 [man] 10,000 ten thousand
십만 [sim-man] 100,000 hundred thousand
백만 [baeng-man] 1,000,000 million
천만 [cheon-man] 10,000,000 ten million
억 [eok] 100,000,000 hundred million
십억 [si-beok] 1,000,000,000 billion
백억 [bae-geok] 10,000,000,000 ten billion
천억 [cheo-neok] 100,000,000,000 hundred billion
조 [jo] 1,000,000,000,000 trillion
십조 [sip-jjo] 10,000,000,000,000 ten trillion
백조 [baek-jjo] 100,000,000,000,000 hundred trillion
천조 [cheon-jo] 10¹⁵ quadrillion
경 [gyeong] 10¹⁶ ten quadrillion
해 [hae] 10²⁰ -