Korean Measure Words 1f3ag

벌-- items of clothing 분 -- people (polite) 척 -- boats and ships 채 -- houses 대 -- vehicles (cars, airplanes) and machinery (incl. computers) 단 -- bunches of Welsh onions, green onions; a column (in a newspaper) 동 -- buildings 개 -- 'things' in general, can be used if you're not sure which specific counting word to use. 그루-- trees 과 -- lessons 권 -- books 장-- paper 자루-- things with long handles (writing instruments, shovels, swords, and rifles), and by extension, knives and pistols 줄 -- literal meaning: line. things aligned in a row (gimbap, desks, chairs) 켤레 -- gloves and socks 마리 -- animals 명 -- people (informal) 필 -- uncut fabric 포기 -- Chinese cabbages 푼 -- pennies 살 -- years (with Native Korean cardinals) 세 -- years (with Sino-Korean cardinals) 송이 -- picked flowers, bunches of grapes, bunches of bananas 톨-- grains of rice (not cooked), stones 통 -- letters, telegrams, telephone calls, and e-mail 통 -- watermelons Some nouns can also function as counter words: 병 -- bottles 층 -- floors (of a building), layers 그릇 -- bowls 곡 -- songs 잔 -- cups and glasses 마디 -- phrases, ts, and musical measures 사람 -- people (informal) 통 -- containers, buckets Some words are used for counting in multiples: 접 -- one hundred dried persimmons/garlic 코 -- twenty dried pollacks 판 -- thirty eggs 손 -- two fish (typically mackerels or yellow croakers) 다스/타스 -- dozen 톳 -- one hundred sheets of lavers