{"id":16004,"date":"2020-01-18T03:23:49","date_gmt":"2020-01-18T03:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-grammar\/usage-of-chinese-number\/"},"modified":"2020-01-18T03:23:49","modified_gmt":"2020-01-18T03:23:49","slug":"usage-of-chinese-number","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/usage-of-chinese-number\/","title":{"rendered":"Usage of Chinese Number"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>  \tChinese grammar requires the use of classifiers (measure words) when a numeral is used together with a noun to express a quantity. For example, <strong>&quot;three people&quot;<\/strong> (\u4e09\u4e2a\u4ebas\u0101n ge r&eacute;n), is expressed as &quot;three GE person&quot;, where \u4e2ag&egrave;is a classifier. There exist many different classifiers, for use with different sets of nouns, although \u4e2ais the most common, and may be used informally in place of other classifiers.<\/p>\n<p>  \tChinese uses cardinal numbers in certain situations in which English would use ordinals. For example, \u4e09\u697cmeans <strong>&quot;third floor&quot;<\/strong> (\u4e09\u697cs\u0101n l&oacute;u). Likewise, \u4e8c\u5341\u4e00\u4e16\u7eaais used for <strong>&quot;21st century&quot;<\/strong>(\u4e8c\u5341\u4e00\u4e16\u7eaa&egrave;rsh&iacute; y\u012b sh&igrave;j&igrave;).<\/p>\n<p>  \tNumbers of years are commonly spoken as a sequence of digits, as in \u4e8c\u96f6\u96f6\u4e00(&quot;two zero zero one&quot;) for the year<strong>2001<\/strong>(\u4e8c\u96f6\u96f6\u4e00&egrave;r l&iacute;ng l&iacute;ng y\u012b). Names of months and days (in the Western system) are also expressed using numbers: \u4e00\u6708(&quot;one month&quot;) for <strong>January<\/strong>(\u4e00\u6708y\u012byu&egrave;), etc.; and \u661f\u671f\u4e00(&quot;week one&quot;) for Monday(\u661f\u671f\u4e00x\u012bngq\u012by\u012b), etc. (although Sunday is \u661f\u671f\u65e5x\u012bngq\u012br&igrave;, or informally \u661f\u671f\u5929x\u012bngq\u012bti\u0101n, &quot;week day&quot;). Full dates are usually written in the format 2001\u5e741\u670820\u65e5for January 20, 2001 (using \u5e74ni&aacute;n &quot;year&quot;, \u6708yu&egrave; &quot;month&quot;, and \u65e5r&igrave; &quot;day&quot;) &ndash; all the numbers are read as cardinals, not ordinals, with no leading zeroes, and the year is read as a sequence of digits.<\/p>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-1019671167\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1889418300638825\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1889418300638825\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"7273022922\" \ndata-ad-layout-key=\"-gw-3+1f-3d+2z\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese grammar requires the use of classifiers (measure words) when a numeral is used together with a noun to express a quantity. For example, &quot;three people&quot; (\u4e09\u4e2a\u4ebas\u0101n ge r&eacute;n), is expressed as &quot;three GE person&quot;, where \u4e2ag&egrave;is a classifier. There exist many different classifiers, for use with different sets of nouns, although \u4e2ais the most common, and may be used informally in place of other classifiers.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[22,1399],"class_list":["post-16004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-grammar","tag-chinese-grammar","tag-measure-words"],"views":263,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}