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  2. Chinese numerals - Wikipedia

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    Because percentages and other fractions are formulated the same, Chinese are more likely than not to express 10%, 20% etc. as 'parts of 10' (or 1 / 10, 2 / 10, etc. i.e. 十分之一; shí fēnzhī yī, 十分之二; shí fēnzhī èr, etc.) rather than "parts of 100" (or 10 / 100, 20 / 100, etc. i.e. 百分之十; bǎi fēnzhī shí ...

  3. Chinese number gestures - Wikipedia

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    a common sign for the number one. 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.

  4. List of countries and territories where Chinese is an ...

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    The following is a list of countries and territories where Chinese is an official language.While those countries or territories that designate any variety of Chinese as an official language, as the term "Chinese" is considered a group of related language varieties rather than a homogeneous language, of which many are not mutually intelligible, in the context of the spoken language such ...

  5. List of languages by number of phonemes - Wikipedia

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    20 16 Counting diphthongs as vowels; General American has 16 vowels while Received Pronunciation has 20 vowels, See English phonology [14] Finnish: Uralic: 21 + (4) 13 + (4) 8 [15] French: Indo-European: 34 + (1) 20 + (1) 14 Vowels /ɑ/ and /œ̃/ have been merged into /a/ and /ɛ̃/, respectively, in Parisian French. /ŋ/ is used for English ...

  6. Tone number - Wikipedia

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    In Mandarin, the numeral "one", originally in tone 1, is pronounced in tone 4 if followed by a classifier in tone 1, 2, or 3. It is pronounced in tone 2 if the classifier has tone 4. In Taiwanese tone sandhi, tone 1 is pronounced as tone 7 if followed by another syllable in a polysyllabic word.

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  8. Chisanbop - Wikipedia

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    Counting from 1 to 20 in Chisanbop. Each finger has a value of one, while the thumb has a value of five. Therefore each hand can represent the digits 0-9, rather than the usual 0-5. The two hands combine to represent two digits; the right hand is the ones place, and the left hand is the tens place.

  9. Traditional Chinese timekeeping - Wikipedia

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    The time xū yī kè (戌一刻) would be read as "1 kè after xū shí", making the time 20:09:36. Four kè mode. After the Tang dynasty's division of the shí , it was still noted first, but with an added description of which half of the shí the kè was taking place in.