Chinese numeral

Chinese numeral

English

Noun

Chinese numeral (plural Chinese numerals)

1. (arithmetic) Any of the symbols 〇 (or 零), 一, 二, 三, 四, 五, 六, 七, 八, 九, 十, 百, 千, 萬 / 万, 億 / 亿, etc. used to represent numbers in Chinese-speaking countries/areas, Japan, at some stage in Korea and Vietnam.

Translations

numerals originated in China

Chinese: Mandarin: 中文數字／中文数字 (Zhōngwén shùzì), 中國數字／中国数字 (Zhōngguó shùzì) French: chiffre chinois m German: chinesische Ziffer f Japanese: 漢数字 (ja) (かんすうじ, kansūji) Korean: 한자(漢字) 숫자(數字) (hanja sutja) Russian: кита́йская ци́фра f (kitájskaja cífra) Thai: เลขจีน (lâyk jeen) Vietnamese: chữ số Trung Quốc (數字中國), mã (vi)

See also

• Arabic numeral
• Roman numeral
• CJK
• CJKV
• hanja
• hanzi
• kanji
• Hán tự
• Sino-Japanese
• Sino-Korean
• Sino-Vietnamese