This is where your two number systems from Lesson 6 meet in a single sentence — plus the days of the week, which carry a beautiful bit of history in their names.
Telling time uses both number systems in the very same phrase — one for the hour, one for the minute.
"1:30" is 한(native "1") 시 삼십(Sino "30") 분 — literally "one o'clock, thirty minutes." The hour always uses the Native modifier forms from Lesson 6.
월(moon) 화(fire) 수(water) 목(wood) 금(metal) 토(earth) 일(sun) — the same names used for Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, and Saturn. English does something similar: Sunday, Monday, Saturday.
Everything you need to talk about time and dates.
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Pick an hour (Native Korean) and a minute (Sino-Korean) to build a full time.
Each day is named after the moon, the sun, or one of the five classical elements. Tap to hear each one.
Months and days of the month both use Sino-Korean numbers — but June and October have irregular short forms.
Simple sentences using the time words from today.
10 questions on times, days, and dates.