Romanisation: myeong

counter for people

Example sentence

친구가 두 명 있어요.

Chinguga du myeong isseoyo.

I have two friends.

What 명 means

(myeong) is a Korean word meaning “counter for people”. It belongs to the Numbers & Measure topic and appears at Level 1, so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Korean.

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