Due to so much demand from my students, I have finally created a comprehensive course on Chinese numbers from 1-100. I’m sure you’ll notice a trend in how you form numbers from 11-99 and how the trends changes from 100 to 1000 then changes again from 10,000 and so on. See if you can figure it out on your own. I even went ahead and threw in the number zero and counted all the major numbers up until one trillion for no extra charge!
Numbers in Chinese will help you understand so many other aspects of Chinese basics. Things like weekdays, months, dates, years, clock time etc are all based off of the numbering system I will teach you in this course.
Monday in Chinese for instance translates to "Week 1", Tuesday translates to "Week 2" and so on. It's the same with months.
January translates to "Month 1", February translates to "Month 2".
You will find a lot of things easier if you take this course.
I expect to see you progress through this course from knowing absolutely nothing about Numbering system in Mandarin Chinese up until when you become a complete pro.
Chinese numerals are words and characters used to denote numbers in Chinese.
Today, speakers of Chinese use three written numeral systems: the system of Arabic numerals used worldwide, and two indigenous systems. The more familiar indigenous system is based on Chinese characters that correspond to numerals in the spoken language. These are shared with other languages of the Chinese cultural sphere such as Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese. Most people and institutions in China and Taiwan primarily use the Arabic or mixed Arabic-Chinese systems for convenience, with traditional Chinese numerals used in finance, mainly for writing amounts on checks, banknotes, some ceremonial occasions, some boxes, and on commercials.[citation needed]
The other indigenous system is the Suzhou numerals, or huama, a positional system, the only surviving form of the rod numerals. These were once used by Chinese mathematicians, and later in Chinese markets, such as those in Hong Kong before the 1990s, but have been gradually supplanted by Arabic (and also Roman) numerals.
