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A2 · Grammar reference · ASGIM3AX

Big numbers in Chinese

The manner in which large numbers are broken down in Chinese is a little different from English. Unlike in English, where large numbers are broken down by the number of thousands they have, Chinese forms numbers between 10,000 and 100,000,000 based off of how many tens of thousands they have (with another set of rules for numbers 100,000,000 onwards that will be explained later). While the structure can be difficult to grasp for some learners, there are some easy ways to remember how to form these big numbers.

Keywords
万 · 千 · 亿
Used for
Expressing quantity
Classification
Numbers · HSK3

Examples (10)

一百万

十四亿

五万两千一百五十二

二百九十一万四千六百八十

七百八十九万零二百九十八

两千七百二十一万四千八百九十六

五千三百七十九万八千两百五十

四亿一千四百二十九万四千一百八十二

十三亿两千六百八十万

两百五十一亿五千八百三十六万七千二百

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Summary, structure, classification, and adapted sentence examples draw from the AllSet Learning Chinese Grammar Wiki under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0; changes were made. This noncommercial reference is based on an October 2023 snapshot.

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