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Chinese numerals are words and characters used to denote numbers in written Chinese. Today, speakers of Chinese languages use three written numeral systems: the system of Arabic numerals used worldwide, and two indigenous systems. The more familiar indigenous system is based on Chinese characters that correspond to numerals in the spoken language.
The Suzhou numerals, also known as Sūzhōu mǎzi (蘇州碼子), is a numeral system used in China before the introduction of Hindu numerals. The Suzhou numerals are also known as huāmǎ (花碼), cǎomǎ (草碼), jīngzǐmǎ (菁仔碼), fānzǐmǎ (番仔碼) and shāngmǎ (商碼). [1] [better source needed]
Using all numbers and all letters except I and O; the smallest base where 1 / 2 terminates and all of 1 / 2 to 1 / 18 have periods of 4 or shorter. 35: Covers the ten decimal digits and all letters of the English alphabet, apart from not distinguishing 0 from O. 36: Hexatrigesimal [57] [58]
Chinese numerals – Characters used to denote numbers in Chinese Counting rods – Small bars used for calculating in ancient East Asia; Cyrillic numerals – Numeral system derived from the Cyrillic script; Greek numerals – System of writing numbers using Greek letters Attic numerals – Symbolic number notation used by the ancient Greeks
Note: [1] [2] Counting Rod Numerals is a Unicode block containing traditional Chinese counting rod symbols, which mathematicians used for calculation in ancient China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam.
Numbers written in different numeral systems. A numeral system is a writing system for expressing numbers; that is, a mathematical notation for representing numbers of a given set, using digits or other symbols in a consistent manner. The same sequence of symbols may represent different numbers in different numeral systems.
Numbers of strokes and their numbers of characters in the "List of Commonly Used Characters in Modern Chinese" strokes characters % 1 2 0.03 2 21 0.30 3 59 0.84 4 136 2.00 5 201 2.87 6 346 4.94 7 545 7.79 8 690 9.86 9 785 11.21 10 761 10.87 11 726 10.38 12 678 9.68 13 549 7.84 14 412 5.88 15 331 4.73 16 276 3.94 17 185 2.64 18 90 1.29 19 81 1.16 20
A Chinese character set (simplified Chinese: 汉字字符集; traditional Chinese: 中文字元集; pinyin: hànzì zìfú jí) is a group of Chinese characters. Since the size of a set is the number of elements in it, an introduction to Chinese character sets will also introduce the Chinese character numbers in them.