Accounting Chinese Numbers

 21 August 19:51   

    The Chinese counting arrangement is adequately simple and straightforward. There are not as some amount words as in English (where the numbers aught up to twenty crave twenty-one altered words , additional added words for the tens, e.g. forty). The Chinese characters for numbers are acclimated abundant like the Arabic numerals (0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9). There are a few added characters to say ten, hundred, thousand, and so forth.

    Note that alotof of the amount characters accept addition added complicated anatomy apery absolutely the aforementioned meaning. This anatomy is acclimated if we do not wish the numbers to be adapted afterwards getting written, like on coffer checks. This will be explained in after locations of this lesson. However, the simpler anatomy (??) and complicated anatomy (??) do not accord to Simplified Chinese and Acceptable Chinese.

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

Number	??	??
0	?	?
1	?	?
2	?	?
3	?	?
4	?	?
5	?	?
6	?	?
7	?	?
8	?	?
9	?	?

    The ?? are accepted circadian use, as they are easier to write. In fact, it will be attenuate to see the ?? numbers in accustomed lives. So, for the time being, you can avoid the ?? numbers unless you charge it for the uses declared later. The alone aberrant case is 0 (zero). The appearance ? is advised for accustomed use forth with the additional numbers, so do bethink this - it will be awe-inspiring to use ? in accustomed affairs unless acceleration is needed, admitting everybody will still accept it.

    Looking at the ?? numbers, 0 through 3 is adequately straightforward. In actuality 0 does not change at all in Chinese characters, except that it seems added annular if you yield it actual seriously. The characters for numbers 1, 2, and 3 accept one, two and three strokes. The additional numbers are not as simple, but anniversary has alone a few strokes, so although the alone way to apprentice them is by memorizing, you should not appointment abundant difficulty. As for the ?? numbers, it is not all-important to apprentice them infact if you alone wish to accomplish basal advice with additional Chinese people. However, apprehend the afterward uses of the ?? numbers. If you acquisition yourself in any these case(s), do apprentice them for your own use.

    The afterward table lists out the agnate Chinese characters for tens, hundreds, etc. The way to accurate them will be explained afterwards.

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

Digit	??	??
10s	?	?
100s	?	?
1,000s	?	?
10,000s	?
100,000,000s	?

    When we accurate a amount to represent a value, or for counting (that is, basal numbers) we just use the amount directly, for example, three cups of tea accounting in Chinese is ?(three)?(cups of)?(tea).

    Consider this number: 42359

    In Chinese: ?????????

    Analysing the Chinese number, we can get 4(?) 10,000s(?) + 2(?) 1,000s(?) + 3(?) 100s(?) + 5(?) 10s(?) + 9(?).

    So, in this archetype we can see that the Chinese numbers are bidding from the better chiffre to the smallest, in a absolutely aboveboard translation. We address the amount of a chiffre (42359 ?), and then add the agnate chiffre indicators (42359 ??) and do the blow in this form. So we can accurate the numbers gradually as we analyse anniversary chiffre in the Arabic number: 4-2-3-5-9 ??-??-??-??-?.

    Up to 10,000s (?), there are agnate Chinese characters for anniversary digit. However, as the amount gets larger, the digits are not that abundant avaliable. Attending at the afterward case to break this problem.

    Arabic Number:430,000

    In English you accept alone tens, hundreds, and bags - what about the ten bags and hundred thousands? You accurate it just as if youre counting the thousands, that is, you calculation that there are four hundred and thirty thousands. So thats how you address it.

    In Chinese we do the same: we accept the alotof 10,000s (?) avaliable in this case. So, we calculation the 10,000s, which gives us 43 10,000s. So we address ???? to accurate these beyond numbers.

    Consider this number: 4,560,082

    To accurate this in Chinese we first address the 10,000s we see, that is, ??????. Now we see nil digits. To accurate this we artlessly alter all the zeros with ?, and abide cogent the number: ??????????.

    For assorted abode holders required, we use one ? for anniversary abode holder, while for after abode holders alone one ? is required.

    Consider this number: 50,237,005

    Applying the aloft rules we can accurate it as ???????????.

    

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    In accession to the aloft rules, there is one left: if cogent 10~19, we address ?,??...?? - we dont say ??,???,??? alone. About in additional numbers like 110~119, we accept to add a ? in foreground of the ?, that is, ????,?????...?????. This alone affects 10s to abridge the anatomy in circadian uses.

    The accessibility of using the simplier ?? numbers can be acutely seen, but the check of these numbers aswell comes from its simplicity. Brainstorm youre autograph a cheque, and the payable bulk is declared to be ??? (300,000). However, just by abacus three strokes, others can calmly change it to ??? (50,000,000)! This ability be an acute case, but you can see its drawbacks. The artlessness such as ?(1), ?(2), ?(3),etc, could couldcause abundant problems.

    For this reason, the ?? numbers should be acclimated whenever you dont wish the numbers to be modified. In the aloft example, if you accept accounting ??? instead, cipher could accept afflicted your writings artlessly because of the complication of the characters.