稱數法 — Number naming: each digit is said with its place-value word (十百千萬); an empty middle place is held open with 零.

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稱數法 grammar point · tier 4 · number naming (十/百/千/萬 place-values, 零 placeholder)

Number naming: each digit is said with its place-value word (十百千萬); an empty middle place is held open with 零.

Hook inherited from 量詞.

Number naming

框 · Frame

[digit]萬 [digit]千 [digit]百 [digit]十 [digit]; an empty middle place → 零

觸 · Trigger

Say a multi-digit number aloud in Chinese.

序 · The move

1Group the number from the right in fours; the four-place block is one 萬.Did I group by 萬, not by Western thousands?

2Read the columns high to low, saying each digit with its column word: 萬, 千, 百, 十.Does each spoken digit carry its place word?

3Where a middle column is empty, say 零 once before resuming.Is 零 only on a skipped middle place, never on a trailing one?

例 · Examples

1一百hundred-column零the tens-column stands empty八eight, in the ones。

one hundred and eight (one-hundred, zero-tens, eight).

界 · Boundary

Western grouping by thousands

Chinese groups by 萬 — 萬 is its own unit, the rung above 千, not 'ten thousand' read as ten 千.

no placeholder (一百八)

An empty middle place takes 零 (一百零八); 一百八 means a hundred-eighty, the 八 filling the tens.

✗ 一百八 (for 108) → ✓ 一百零八

✗ 十千 (for 10000) → ✓ 一萬

✗ 一千一十八 (for 1018) → ✓ 一千零一十八 (the hundreds column is empty, so 零 holds it)

English groups by thousands and has no per-place word like 萬, and no 零 spoken to hold a skipped middle place.