seven
Ilgop (일곱) is the native Korean numeral for «seven». The Korean Kumdo Association textbook guides strike steps with native counts (hana, set); I found no source describing a specific use of ilgop.
How to say it
- Korean
- 일곱ilgop
- Spanish
- Siete
- English
- seven
- Japanese
- 七つななつnanatsu
Ilgop (일곱) is the word for «seven» in the native Korean number system: hana, dul, set, net, daseot, yeoseot, ilgop, yeodeol, ahop, yeol. The native system is used for counting people and things, for age in speech, and for the hours of the day. The Sino-Korean system has a different form for seven: chil (칠).
Before a counter, ilgop keeps its form (for example 일곱 번, «seven times»), and the ordinal is 일곱 번째 («seventh»).
In kumdo, the textbook of the Korea Kumdo Association (대한검도회) teaches the striking method (gyeokjabeop, 격자법) in 3-, 2- and 1-count movements, and it marks the steps with the native counts «hana» (하나) and «set» (셋). In the parts I consulted, ilgop does not appear with a technical meaning of its own.
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