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:

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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”)