승

Etymology 1
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Noun

 * 1) victory

Etymology 2
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Usage notes

 * After this expression had been criticized for its probable Japanese origin, the educational world has been making steady efforts to replace this counter with the native Korean word . Despite its gradual disappearance from public education materials like textbooks, most people still understand it well and use it in mathematical contexts.
 * In some people, chiefly among the young, there is a tendency to prefer '' to 승 in case of describing low exponents of a number. When the high or noninteger number comes as exponent, people use 승 more than.
 * But it will be no problem with handling these two expressions since most people understands both of them well.