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Reading Chinese Numbers

In certain contexts numbers are read as individual digits, such as numbers included as part of phone numbers, addresses, licenses, passports and other documents.
Note: In standard Mandarin as spoken in Beijing and other parts of China, the number "1" can be pronunced as yao1 as well.

8833 - 1111
ba1 ba1 san1 san1 - yi1 yi1 yi1 yi1
ba1 ba1 san1 san1 - yao1 yao1 yao1 yao1

119
yi1 yi1 jiu3
yao1 yao1 jiu3

411
si yi1 yi1
si yao1 yao1

13521049867
yi1 san1 wu3 er4 yi1 ling2 si4 jiu3 ba1 liu4 qi1
yao1 san1 wu3 er4 yao1 ling2 si4 jiu3 ba1 liu4 qi1

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