마리

Korean

Etymology

Originally identical to 머리 (meori, “head”), its yang-vowel analogue. This is one of a number of Korean yang-yin vowel pairs which were originally one word with two connected but different meanings, leading to speakers using vowels to differentiate between the two meanings. See also 살 (sal, “age”) and 설 (seol, “Lunar New Year”).

Pronunciation

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [ma̠ɾi]
• Phonetic hangul: [마리]

Romanizations
Revised Romanization?	mari
Revised Romanization (translit.)?	mali
McCune–Reischauer?	mari
Yale Romanization?	mali

Counter

마리 • (mari)

1. animals; head (of cattle); fish

Usage notes

As with most count words (a.k.a. classifiers), 마리 (mari) is preceded by native Korean numerals.

See also

Other Korean counters:

More information

• 시 (si, “o'clock”)
• 시간 (sigan, “hours”)
• 번 (beon, “times”)
• 병 (byeong, “bottles”)
• 살 (sal, “years”)
• 명 (myeong, “people”)
• 사람 (saram, “people”)
• 분 (bun, “(honorific) people”)
• 갑 (gap, “packs”)
• 권 (gwon, “volumes”)
• 개 (gae, “items, units, objects”)
• 대 (dae, “vehicles, machines”)
• 잔 (jan, “cupful”)
• 장 (jang, “flat object, pieces of paper”)
• 채 (chae, “houses”)
• 봉지 (bongji, “paper bags”)
• 송이 (song'i, “flowers”)