| Welcome to Fun &Easy Chinese by ChineseClass101.com! |
| 嗨大家好，我是李殷如. Hài dà jiā hǎo, Wǒ shì Lǐ Yīnrú. |
| Hi everyone, Yinru Li here. |
| [catchy QUESTION] |
| Are you good with numbers? |
| We deal with numbers every day in our daily life. It is crucial for a language learner to be able to say numbers with precision right from the beginning. |
| In this lesson, you’ll learn numbers in Chinese and how the Chinese number system works. |
| Single Digit Numbers |
| Let’s start with the single digit numbers. |
| 零 líng (slow) 零 |
| 一 yī (slow) 一 |
| 二 èr (slow) 二 |
| 三 sān (slow) 三 |
| 四 sì (slow) 四 |
| 五 wǔ (slow) 五 |
| 六 liù (slow) 六 |
| 七 qī (slow) 七 |
| 八 bā (slow) 八 |
| 九 jiǔ (slow) 九 |
| These are the fundamental numbers to make bigger numbers. |
| 10s |
| Now let’s move on to ten and its mutiples. |
| "Ten" in Chinese is 十. shí (slow) 十 |
| "Twenty" is two tens, so it’s 二十 èr shí (slow) 二十 |
| How about "thirty"? Three tens. 三十 sān shí （slow) 三十 |
| 40? 四十 sì shí (slow) 四十 |
| 50？五十 wǔ shí (slow) 五十 |
| 60？六十 liù shí (slow) 六十 |
| 70？七十 qī shí (slow) 七十 |
| 80？八十 bā shí (slow) 八十 |
| 90？九十 jiǔ shí (slow) 九十 |
| Double Digit Numbers |
| At this point, we’re ready to make any two-digit number we want. |
| Let’s try 11. |
| 11 is 10 and 1, ten is 十, one is 一, |
| so "eleven" is 十一 shí yī (slow) 十一. |
| 23, which is 20 and 3, |
| 二十三. èr shí sān (slow) 二十三. |
| 45, which is 40 and 5, 四十五 sì shí wǔ (slow) 四十五. |
| 99, which is 90 and 9, 九十九 jiǔ shí jiǔ (slow) 九十九. |
| Big Numbers |
| To say numbers bigger than 99, we need to learn a few more words. |
| 百, means "hundred." (slow) 百 bǎi |
| 一百 is "one hundred." (slow)一百 yì bǎi |
| What is 一百三十七? Let’s break it down. |
| 一百 is "one hundred" 一百, 三十 "thirty" 三十, 七 is "seven", |
| together 一百三十七 is "one hundred and thirty seven," |
| (slow) 一百三十七 yì bǎi sān shí qī . |
| How do you say 420？ |
| "Four hundred" is 四百, and "twenty" is 二十. |
| Together 四百二十 sì bǎi èr shí, |
| "four hundred and twenty," |
| (slow) 四百二十. |
| How about 614? {pause} 六百一十四. liù bǎi yī shí sì. |
| Notice when the number is three digits or more, we need to say 一十 instead of 十 for teen numbers. We say 六百一十四. liù bǎi yī shí sì, we don’t say 六百十四 liù bǎi shí sì. |
| 918 is 九百一十八 jiǔ bǎi yī shí bā，not 九百十八 jiǔ bǎi shí bā. (slow) 九百一十八 |
| A even bigger number unit is 千, |
| meaning "thousand," (slow) 千 qiān. |
| 三千 "three thousand" |
| (slow) 三千 sān qiān |
| 六千七百 "six thousand and seven hundred" |
| (slow) 六千七百 liù qiān qī bǎi |
| 八千五百一十九 bā qiān wǔ bǎi yī shí jiǔ |
| 八千 "eight thousand" 八千, 五百, "five hundred" 五百, 一十九, "nineteen" 一十九, |
| together 八千五百一十九 is |
| "eight thousand five hundred and nineteen". |
| (slow) 八千五百一十九 . |
| Ready to go higher? Here are a couple special big number units used in China |
| First, 万 means "ten thousand," (slow) 万 wàn. |
| Second, 亿 means "hundred million," 亿 yì. |
| Now let’s review with a quiz. |
| How do you say 5 in Chinese? |
| 五 五 |
| How do you say 15 in Chinese? |
| 十五 十五 |
| And how do you say 515 in Chinese? |
| 五百一十五 五百一十五 |
| Now how do you say 50,000 in Chinese? |
| 五万 五万 |
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