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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.
Chinese numerology. Some numbers are believed by some to be auspicious or lucky (吉利, pinyin: jílì; Cantonese Yale: gātleih) or inauspicious or unlucky (不吉, pinyin: bùjí; Cantonese Yale: bātgāt) based on the Chinese word that the number sounds similar to. The numbers 6 and 8 are widely considered to be lucky, while 4 is considered ...
Chinese number gestures are a method to signify the natural numbers one through ten using one hand. This method may have been developed to bridge the many varieties of Chinese —for example, the numbers 4 ( Chinese: 四; pinyin: sì) and 10 ( Chinese: 十; pinyin: shí) are hard to distinguish in some dialects. Some suggest that it was also ...
jou2. "set" — general mass-classifier for sets of objects (sets of, e.g. batteries 電池 / 电池, planets 行星, variables 變量 / 变量, data 数据 / 數據, objects 對象 / 对象, words 詞 / 词, or any sensible thing you want to name). A set is usually assumed to have two or more objects.
Wufu ( Chinese: 五福 ), meaning the five blessings, is a concept that signify a grouping of certain good fortunes and luck in Chinese culture. The number five is regarded as an auspicious number in Chinese traditions and closely associated with the Five Elements ( Wu Xing, Chinese: 五行 ), which are essential for a good life as well as the ...
The Chinese Character Code for Information Interchange ( Chinese: 中文資訊交換碼) or CCCII is a character set developed by the Chinese Character Analysis Group in Taiwan. It was first published in 1980, and significantly expanded in 1982 and 1987. [1] It is used mostly by library systems. [2] [3] It is one of the earliest established and ...
The Hokkien language (incl. Taiwanese) has two regularly used sets of numerals, a more ancient colloquial/vernacular or native Hokkien system and a literary system.. The more ancient vernacular numerals are the native numbers of Hokkien that trace back to Hokkien's origins itself, which is a Coastal Min language that spread southwest across the coast of Fujian from around the Min River.
The rod numeral system is a positional numeral system used by the Chinese in mathematics. Suzhou numerals are a variation of the Southern Song rod numerals. Suzhou numerals were used as shorthand in number-intensive areas of commerce such as accounting and bookkeeping. At the same time, standard Chinese numerals were used in formal writing ...