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Mandarin Class Lesson 03 - Numbers

The document discusses how to count in Mandarin Chinese from 1 to 99. Numbers are read by combining the digit words, with the tens place coming before "ten" and the ones place coming after. So 11 is read "ten-one" and 12 is "ten-two". Larger numbers follow a similar format with the addition of "hundred", "thousand" etc. in their appropriate places. The only exception is the number 2, which is read "liang" instead of "er" except when referring to the ones or tens place.

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Mandarin Class Lesson 03 - Numbers

The document discusses how to count in Mandarin Chinese from 1 to 99. Numbers are read by combining the digit words, with the tens place coming before "ten" and the ones place coming after. So 11 is read "ten-one" and 12 is "ten-two". Larger numbers follow a similar format with the addition of "hundred", "thousand" etc. in their appropriate places. The only exception is the number 2, which is read "liang" instead of "er" except when referring to the ones or tens place.

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Lesson 03: Counting in Mandarin

1
(Yi1)

2
(Er4)

3
(San1)

4
Si4)

5
Wu3)

6
(Liu4)

7
Qi1)

8
(Ba1)

9
(Jiu3)

10
Shi2

And this is where it gets really interesting...

11
Shi2 Yi1)

12
Shi2 Er4)

Notice how eleven is just written as ten-one, and twelve as ten-two? Thats how we refer to
the ones digit in Mandarin!
So how do we refer to digits in ten, then?

81
Ba1 Shi2 Yi1)
You simply add the tens digit in front of the word ten!
In short, we write numbers from 1 to 99 in the following format:

Tens Digit - Ten - Ones Digit


Other terms:

100
Bai3)

1000
(Qian1)

For example:

3, 924
(San1 Qian1 Jiu3 Bai3 Er4 Shi2 Si4)

In the same way, we express it as:


Thousands Digit - Thousand - Hundreds Digit - Hundred - Tens Digit - Ten - Ones Digit

Only exception:

2
Liang2)

So, when do we use


We use

and when do we use

only when it involves the ones and tens digit.

For example:

222
(Liang2 Bai3 Er4 Shi2 Er4)

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