{"id":3160,"date":"2019-11-04T22:21:38","date_gmt":"2019-11-04T22:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-grammar\/how-to-read-big-number-with-different-units-in-chinese\/"},"modified":"2019-11-04T22:21:38","modified_gmt":"2019-11-04T22:21:38","slug":"how-to-read-big-number-with-different-units-in-chinese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/how-to-read-big-number-with-different-units-in-chinese\/","title":{"rendered":"How to read big number with Different units in Chinese"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p style=\"margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-overflow: ellipsis; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 25.200000762939453px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\">Mandarin\/Chinese number has two units that English doesn&#8217;t have (or at least, it has unique words for these units whilst English describes them with combinations of other units. These are:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-overflow: ellipsis; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 25.200000762939453px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold;\">\u4e07 &#8211; ten thousand<br style=\"line-height: 1.2em;\" \/>  \u4ebf &#8211; hundred million<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-overflow: ellipsis; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 25.200000762939453px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\">\u4e07 comes up the most often and is the largest stumbling block for most people learning Mandarin numbers. In English, numbers are usually broken up into chunks of three digits. Because of \u4e07, it&#8217;s easier to break numbers up into groups of four in Mandarin. For example:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-overflow: ellipsis; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 25.200000762939453px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\">12000<br style=\"line-height: 1.2em;\" \/>  Would be split into 12,000 in English (chunks of three digits), and the English reading &quot;twelve thousand&quot; would become more obvious. Split it the Chinese way, &quot;1,2000,&quot; and the Chinese reading &quot;\u4e00\u4e07\u4e24\u5343&quot; (one wan and two &quot;thousand&quot;) becomes more logical.<br style=\"line-height: 1.2em;\" \/>  More examples:<br \/>  &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"293\" src=\"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/20191120_5dd4f1214e087.jpg\" alt=\"How to read big number with Different units in Chinese\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-3906929785\"><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>Mandarin\/Chinese number has two units that English doesn&#8217;t have (or at least, it has unique words for these units whilst English describes them with combinations of other units. These are:<\/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":[41,309,302,151,1425],"class_list":["post-3160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-grammar","tag-chinese-reading","tag-four-in-mandarin","tag-in-mandarin","tag-mandarin","tag-re-exam"],"views":340,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3160","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=3160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}