were invented in India by the Hindus. Because the Arabs transmitted this system to the West after the Hindu numerical system found its way to Persia, the numeral system became known as Arabic numerals, though Arabs call the numerals they use “Indian numerals”, أرقام هندية, arqam hindiyyah.

During the Gupta period (early 4th century to the late 6th century), the Gupta numerals developed from the Brahmi numerals and were spread over large areas by the Gupta empire as they conquered territory. Beginning around 7th century, the Gupta numerals developed into the Nagari numerals.

Arabic numbers, or more precisely Hindu-Arabic numbers, were invented sometime in fifth century India. From India they spread westwards, together with the spread of Islam, reaching the Mediterranean around the eighth century. But it took a long time before Europeans widely adopted Arabic numbers in their practice.

The use of Arabic numerals is a modern occurrence of course. Traditionally numbers were written out in 한글 or 한자. But modernly, most Koreans are totally fine using Arabic numerals.

0 – 영 (yeong) 1 – 일 (il) 2 – 이 (i) 3 – 삼 (sam)

one, two, three

Koube. 1. Oppa 오빠 = a male older than a female / older brother to a female / a way a female tries to get attention from a male they like (my interpretation) deul 들 = plural Thus, 오빠들 (oppa deul) means older brothers to a female or when a female refers to males older than she.

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After that, the counting logic still applies, so here’s how you can figure out 21 in Korean: It’s the product of 스물 (20) and 하나 (One). In Sino-Korean, combine 이십 (20) and 일 (one).

Pure Korean words are essentially words that Koreans were using before they started borrowing words from the Chinese. They are Korea’s oldest words, the words that were so important to Koreans that they have survived the Chinese word invasion that started a little over 1500 years ago.

Let’s say that you’re aged 50-100. You will most likely use the Sino-Korean numbers instead of the native Korean numbers. Again, you don’t have to use the Sino-Korean numbers for ages 50-99. However, most Koreans prefer to use numbers 50-99 with Sino-Korean numbers.