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| Number | Chinese | Pinyin | Capital (cheques) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 零 / 〇 | líng | 零 |
| 1 | 一 | yī | 壹 |
| 2 | 二 / 两 | èr / liǎng | 贰 |
| 3 | 三 | sān | 叁 |
| 4 | 四 | sì | 肆 |
| 5 | 五 | wǔ | 伍 |
| 6 | 六 | liù | 陆 |
| 7 | 七 | qī | 柒 |
| 8 | 八 | bā | 捌 |
| 9 | 九 | jiǔ | 玖 |
| 10 | 十 | shí | 拾 |
| 100 | 百 | bǎi | 佰 |
| 1,000 | 千 | qiān | 仟 |
| 10,000 | 万 | wàn | 万 |
| 100,000,000 | 亿 | yì | 亿 |
Chinese reads a number as digit then unit, largest first: 二千零二十六 is 2 thousand, a filler 零, 2 tens and 6. The unit 万 counts ten thousands and 亿 counts hundred millions, so numbers are grouped in fours, not threes: 123456 is 十二万三千四百五十六, "twelve ten-thousands" then 3,456. A 零 is spoken once wherever one or more zeros fall between two non-zero digits, as in 一百零五, and not at the end of a number.
As a quantity it is 二千零二十六. As a year it is read digit by digit: 二〇二六年. The zero in 二千零二十六 is 零, and the zero in a year is usually written 〇.
Use 两 (liǎng) when counting things before a measure word, as in 两个人, and in speech before 百, 千 and 万: 两百, 两千, 两万. Use 二 inside longer numbers such as 十二, 二十 and 二十二, in ordinals like 第二, and when reading digits one by one. 二百 and 两百 are both correct; 两百 is the more colloquial.
十 for 10 and 十一 for 11: the 一 before 十 is dropped when the number begins with it. 100000 is 十万, and 110 is 一百一十 because the 一 is kept once a larger unit comes first.
They are the formal numerals written on cheques, invoices and contracts, because they are hard to alter: 1 to 10 are 壹 贰 叁 肆 伍 陆 柒 捌 玖 拾, with 佰 for hundred and 仟 for thousand. Amounts in yuan end in 元整 when there are no jiao or fen.
Largest unit first, with 年 for year, 月 for month and 日 or 号 for day. 11 November 2026 is 二〇二六年十一月十一日, and 号 is the spoken form of 日. The converter also gives the weekday, which uses 星期 followed by 一 to 六, with 星期日 or 星期天 for Sunday.
Shorthand like 一万二 can mean 12,000, and 三百五 can mean 350, depending on the speaker, so reading it would be a guess. Write the last unit out, such as 一万二千 or 三百五十.
Whole numbers up to 999,999,999,999 (just under one trillion), with decimals read digit by digit after 点 and a leading minus written 负. It does not use 兆, which means different sizes in different places.
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