Telling Time

To tell time, you use

• the Pure Korean number for the hour, followed by
• the classifier for hours, . If there are any minutes, follow this with:
• the Sino-Korean number of minutes and
• the word for minutes,

Examples:

5:20 =  

7:43 =  

2:15 =  

1:39 =  

Notice in the last two examples that the pure Korean hour has changed form before the .

Sino-Korean Numbers

Numbers Index