Learn Chinese for Free - Lesson 6
Today's Chinese characters:
Today we're going to learn how to correctly say in Chinese "two persons" and how to count from 100 to 99,999,999.
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Characters' Essentials
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liang3 |
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qian1 |
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wan4 |
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Description and Examples
As said explaining the different use of and
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is generally not used before measure words.
Infact, the correct Chinese phrase for "two persons" is:
Numbers Key Points
The method that I personally use to figure in my mind numbers in Chinese is to associate the appropriate Chinese character to the 1, 2, 3, 4 or 8 zeros number.
1 zero numbers
The key Chinese character for 1 zero numbers is .
The Chinese character after it indicates units, the one before it indicates tens.
Only remember that numbers from 10 to 19 don't have before
, and that "zero" is never written or read when at the end of a number (as in 10, 20, 30 or 100, 2000, 30000).
Examples
2 zeros numbers
After it we would put numbers from 1 to 99, as explained under the preceding subtitle (in this case, numbers from 10 to 19 do have before
).
The Chinese character before indicates hundreds
Examples
three-hundred and thirty-three
I've not mentioned numbers from 101 to 109 because you still don't know how to say and write "zero". Tomorrow you'll study the character for "zero", even if it's not among the 1000 most used Chinese characters.
3 zeros numbers
The Chinese character before it indicates thousands. After it, numbers from 1 to 999 as said above.
Examples
nine-thousand nine-hundred ninety-nine
4 zeros numbers
Chinese language has a single key character for four zeros numbers: .
The Chinese character before it indicates tens of thousands. It's followed by numbers from 1 to 9999 written as usual.
Examples
forty-four thousand four-hundred forty-four
8 zeros numbers
Chinese language has also a single key character indicating hundreds of millions. It's not among the 1000 most used Chinese characters. Anyway, in order to complete the subject "numbers", tomorrow you'll study it together with the character for "zero".
Exercise
Pronounce as fast as possible the following numbers:
11,111
33,333
99,999
Chinese Character 14 of 1000
character's usage score # 133
frequency 0.1522449%
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liang3 |
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This character has a different traditional version.
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Chinese Character 15 of 1000
character's usage score # 407
frequency 0.0537136%
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bai3 |
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bo2 |
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There's no difference between the simplified and the traditional version of this character.
Chinese Character 16 of 1000
character's usage score # 599
frequency 0.0350602%
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qian1 |
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There's no difference between the simplified and the traditional version of this character.
Chinese Character 17 of 1000
character's usage score # 322
frequency 0.0693629%
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3 |
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mo4 |
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This character has a different traditional version.
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