십

십	U+C2ED, 십 HANGUL SYLLABLE SIB

Composition:

ㅅ + ㅣ + ㅂ

← 심
[U+C2EC]

Hangul Syllables

싮 →
[U+C2EE]

싀 ←	→ 싸
시 식 싞 싟 신 싡 싢 싣 실 싥 싦 싧 싨 싩 싪 싫 심십싮 싯 싰 싱 싲 싳 싴 싵 싶 싷

Jeju

Etymology

Sino-Korean word from 十 (“ten”), from the Middle Korean reading 십〮 (Yale: síp), from Middle Chinese 十 (MC dzyip). Cognate with Korean 십 (sip).

**Jeju numbers ^(edit)**
		100
← 1	← 9	10	11 →	20 →
		1
Native isol.: 열 (yeol) Native attr.: 열 (yeol) Sino: 십 (sip) Ordinal: 열체 (yeolche) Number of days: 열흘 (yeolheul)

Pronunciation

(Morphophonemic) IPA^(key): ⫽sip⫽
(Jeju City) IPA^(key): [ɕʰip̚]
Phonetic hangul: [십]

Romanizations
Revised Romanization^?	sip
Revised Romanization (translit.)^?	sib
Yale Romanization^?	sip

Numeral

십 (sip)

(Sino-Korean numeral) ten
Synonym: 열 (yeol, “ten”, native numeral)

열 시 십 분 ― yeol si sip bun ― ten minutes after ten, 10:10

나 십 원 벢이 엇네!
Na sip won-bekki eonne!
(You know) I only have ten won!

Derived terms

ᄉᆞ십 (sawsip, “forty”)
구십 (gusip, “ninety”)
두십 (dusip, “twenty”)
삼십 (samsip, “thirty”)
시월 (siwol, “December”)
오십 (osip, “fifty”)
욱십 (uksip, “sixty”)
칠십 (chilsip, “seventy”)
팔십 (palsip, “eighty”)

Korean

Etymology

Sino-Korean word from 十 (“ten”), from the Middle Korean reading 십〮 (Yale: síp), from Middle Chinese 十 (MC dzyip). Cognate with Jeju 십 (sip).

**Korean numbers ^(edit)**
		100
← 1	← 9	10	11 →	20 →
		1
Native isol.: 열 (yeol) Native attr.: 열 (yeol) Sino-Korean: 십 (sip) Hanja: 十 Ordinal: 열째 (yeoljjae)

Pronunciation

(SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [ɕʰip̚]
Phonetic hangul: [십]

Romanizations
Revised Romanization^?	sip
Revised Romanization (translit.)^?	sib
McCune–Reischauer^?	sip
Yale Romanization^?	sip

Numeral

십 • (sip) (hanja 十)

(Sino-Korean numeral) ten
Synonym: 열 (yeol, “ten”, native numeral)

Usage notes

In modern Korean, numbers are usually written in Arabic numerals.

The Korean language has two sets of numerals: a native set of numerals inherited from Old Korean, and a Sino-Korean set which was borrowed from Middle Chinese in the first millennium C.E.

Native classifiers take native numerals.

개 한 마리 (gae han mari, “one dog”, native numeral)
나무 두 그루 (namu du geuru, “two trees”, native numeral)

Some Sino-Korean classifiers take native numerals, others take Sino-Korean numerals, while yet others take both.

종이 두 장(張) (jong'i du jang, “two sheets of paper”, native numeral)
이 분(分) (i bun, “two minutes”, Sino-Korean numeral)
서른/삼십 명(名) (seoreun/samsip myeong, “thirty people”, both sets possible)

Recently loaned classifiers generally take Sino-Korean numerals.

일 킬로미터 (il killomiteo, “one kilometer”, Sino-Korean numeral)

For many terms, a native numeral has a quantifying sense, whereas a Sino-Korean numeral has a sense of labeling.

세 반(班) (se ban, “three school classes”, native numeral)
삼 반(班) (sam ban, “Class Number Three”, Sino-Korean numeral)

When used in isolation, native numerals refer to objects of that number and are used in counting and quantifying, whereas Sino-Korean numerals refer to the numbers in a more mathematical sense.

하나만 더 주세 요 (hana-man deo juse-yo, “Could you give me just one more, please”, native numeral)
일 더하기 일은? (il deohagi ir-eun?, “What's one plus one?”, Sino-Korean numeral)

While older stages of Korean had native numerals up to the thousands, native numerals currently exist only up to ninety-nine, and Sino-Korean is used for all higher numbers. There is also a tendency—particularly among younger speakers—to uniformly use Sino-Korean numerals for the higher tens as well, so that native numerals such as 일흔 (ilheun, “seventy”) or 아흔 (aheun, “ninety”) are becoming less common.

Derived terms

See the hanja entry at 十 for Sino-Korean compounds of 십 (十, sip).