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The Chinese Numbers

    In daily life, we will use a the numbers a lot. This lesson will introduce to you some Chinese numbers.

Number

Character

Pinyin

0 ( Zero)

Líng
1 (One)

2 (Two)

Èr
3 (Three)

Sān
4 (Four)

5 (Five)

6 (Six)

Liù
7 (Seven)

8 (Eight)

9 (Nine)

Jiǔ
10 (Ten)

Shí
100 (Hundred)

bǎi
1,000 (Thousand)

qiān
10,000 (Ten Thousand)

wàn

    Some combined number examples as the following:

Number

Character

Pinyin

12 (Twelve)
十二
Shí èr
26 (Twenty six)
二十六
Èr shí liù
30 (Thirty)
三十
Sān shí
68 (Sixty eighty)
六十八
Liù shí bā
300 (Three hundred)
三百
sān bǎi
526 (Five hundred and twenty six)
五百二十六
wǔ bǎi èr shí liù
6,000 (Six thousand)
六千
liù qiān
7,352 (Seven thousand three hundred and fifty two)
七千三百五十二
qī qiān sān bǎi wǔ shí èr
80,000 (Eighty thousand)
八万
bā wàn
97,683 (Ninety seven thousand six hundred and eighty three)
九万七千六百八十三
jiǔ wàn qī qiān liù bǎi bā shí sān


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