Numbers in Chinese » App2Brain

Numbers are a great place to begin your journey into the Chinese language. Start by learning the numbers from 1 to 10, then 11 to 20, 21 to 100 and so on. Pay attention to the recurring patterns that will help you form any number above one hundred easily!

This lesson is part of the chapter “Learning Chinese (Mandarin)“.

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Vocabulary

Numbers from 0 to 10

	English	Chinese	Chinese (Romanization)
0	zero	零	líng
1	one	一	yī
2	two	二	èr
3	three	三	sān
4	four	四	sì
5	five	五	wǔ
6	six	六	liù
7	seven	七	qī
8	eight	八	bā
9	nine	九	jiǔ
10	ten	十	shí

Numbers from 11 to 100

	English	Chinese	Chinese (Romanization)
11	eleven	十一	shí yī
12	twelve	十二	shí èr
13	thirteen	十三	shí sān
14	fourteen	十四	shí sì
15	fifteen	十五	shí wǔ
16	sixteen	十六	shí liù
17	seventeen	十七	shí qī
18	eighteen	十八	shí bā
19	nineteen	二十	èr shí
20	twenty	二十	èr shí
21	twenty-one	二十一	èr shí yī
30	thirty	三十	sān shí
40	fourty	四十	sì shí
50	fifty	五十	wǔ shí
60	sixty	六十	liù shí
70	seventy	七十	qī shí
80	eighty	八十	bā shí
90	ninety	九十	jiǔ shí
100	one hundred	一百	yī bǎi

Numbers from 101 to 1,000,000

	English	Chinese	Chinese (Romanization)
101	one hundred and one	一百零一	yī bǎi líng yī
200	two hundred	两百	liǎng bǎi
300	three hundred	三百	sān bǎi
400	four hundred	四百	sì bǎi
500	five hundred	五百	wǔ bǎi
600	six hundred	六百	liù bǎi
700	seven hundred	七百	qī bǎi
800	eight hundred	八百	bā bǎi
900	nine hundred	九百	jiǔ bǎi
1000	one thousand	一千	yī qiān
2000	two thousand	两千	liǎng qiān
3000	three thousand	三千	sān qiān
5000	five thousand	五千	wǔ qiān
100000	one hundred thousand	十万	shí wàn
1000000	one million	百万	bǎi wàn