Romanisation: won

won (unit of money)

Example sentence

이 책은 만 원이에요.

I chaegeun man wonieyo.

This book is 10,000 won.

What 원 means

(won) is a Korean word meaning “won (unit of money)”. 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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