Learn Mandarin numbers
二 or 两? Myriad grouping and measure words — precision matters.
Real-world situations you'll practice
🕐Telling time
💰Currency & prices
📅Dates
📞Phone numbers
🎂Ages
🌡️Temperature
➗Arithmetic
📏Measurement
⏱️Duration
½Fractions
🔢Decimals
%Percentages
🏅Ranking
🧮Counter words
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Number System
Scale
Myriad
Grouping
By 4
Decade base
Decimal
Word order
Tens-units
Construction
Additive
What makes Mandarin numbers unique
1
二/两 distinction: 二 (èr) for digits, 两 (liǎng) for quantities
2
Myriad scale: 万 (wàn, 10⁴) and 亿 (yì, 10⁸)
3
Measure words / classifiers (个, 本, 张)
4
Chinese character numerals (一二三…) alongside Arabic digits