 | |||||||
| Home | Pronunciation | Vocabulary | Conversation | Reading | Grammar | Fun Stuff | |
| Character | Links | User Guide | |||||
mandarin123.com >> grammar >> numbers | counting
Counting Chinese numbers
Counting Numbers 0 - 99| Chinese | Pinyin | Arabic | Financial |
| 零 or 〇 | ling2 | 0 | 零 |
| 一 | yi1 | 1 | 壹 |
| 二 | er4 | 2 | 貳 |
| 三 | san1 | 3 | 叄 |
| 四 | si4 | 4 | 肆 |
| 五 | wu3 | 5 | 伍 |
| 六 | liu6 | 6 | 陸 |
| 七 | qi1 | 7 | 柒 |
| 八 | ba1 | 8 | 捌 |
| 九 | jiu3 | 9 | 玖 |
| 十 | shi2 | 10 | 拾 |
| Chinese | Pinyin | Arabic |
| 十一 | shi2 yi1 | 11 |
| 十二 | shi2 er4 | 12 |
| 十三 | shi2 san1 | 13 |
| 十四 | shi2 si4 | 14 |
| 十五 | shi2 wu3 | 15 |
| 十六 | shi2 liu6 | 16 |
| 十七 | shi2 qi1 | 17 |
| 十八 | shi2 ba1 | 18 |
| 十九 | shi2 jiu9 | 19 |
| 二十 | er4 shi2 | 20 |
| 二十二 | er4 shi2 er4 | 22 |
| 三十 | san1 shi2 | 30 |
| 三十三 | san1 shi2 san1 | 33 |
| 四十 | si4 shi2 | 40 |
| 四十四 | si4 shi2 si4 | 44 |
| 五十 | wu3 shi2 | 50 |
| 五十五 | wu3 shi2 wu3 | 55 |
| 六十 | liu6 shi2 | 60 |
| 六十六 | liu6 shi2 liu6 | 66 |
| 七十 | qi1 shi2 | 70 |
| 七十七 | qi1 shi2 qi1 | 77 |
| 八十 | ba1 shi2 | 80 |
| 八十八 | ba1 shi2 ba1 | 88 |
| 九十 | jiu9 shi2 | 90 |
| 九十九 | jiu9 shi2 jiu9 | 99 |
( 二 : er4 ) and ( 两 : liang3 )
When counting numbers without specified classifier ( measurement word ),
the number "2" is always ( 二 : er4 ) :
一, 二, 三 ...
yi1, er4, san1 ...
When the number "2" is part of the number 12, 22, 32, 102 ..., it is always ( 二 : er4 ) :
十二, 九十二...
shi2 er4, jiu9 shi2 er4 ...
When the number "2" is used in the sense of ordering as second (2nd ) in English, it is always ( 二 : er4 ) :
二楼, 二街
二樓, 二街
er4 lou2, er4 jie1
Second floor, second street
When the number "2" occurs before a measurement word, it's ( 兩 : liang3 ) :
两个人
兩個人
liang3 ge4 ren2
two people
两张椅子
兩張椅子
liang3 zhang1 yi3 zi
two chairs
| Chinese | Pinyin | Arabic | Financial |
| 百 | bai3 | 100 | 佰 |
| 千 | qian1 | 1,000 | 仟 |
| 万 ( 萬 ) | wan4 | 10,000 | 萬 |
| 亿 ( 億 ) | yi4 | 100,000,000 | 億 |
| 兆 | zhao4 | 1,000,000,000,000 | 兆 |
Following are some examples.
| Arabic | hundred-millions | ten-thousands | thousands | hundreds | tens | ones |
| 8,979,614 | 八百九十七万 ( 萬 ) | 九千 | 六百 | 十 | 四 | |
| 1,234,567,899 | 十二亿 ( 億 ) | 三千四百五十六万 ( 萬 ) | 七千 | 八百 | 九十 | 九 |
An empty hundreds place or tens place may be read as ( 〇/零 : ling3 ).
8,808
八千八百零八
ba1 qian1 ba1 bai3 ling2 ba1
80,880
八万八百八十
八萬八百八十
ba1 wan4 ba1 bai3 ba1 shi2
When reading a number with a series of zeroes, the word ( 〇/零 : ling3 ) is read only once:
1,0001
一万零一
一萬零一
yi1 wan4 ling3 yi1
Next lesson : Numbers | Estimates and approximations