{"id":649,"date":"2007-02-21T15:19:22","date_gmt":"2007-02-21T07:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2007\/spelling-out-whole-numbers-in-hanyu-pinyin\/"},"modified":"2018-08-22T16:32:51","modified_gmt":"2018-08-22T08:32:51","slug":"spelling-out-whole-numbers-in-hanyu-pinyin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2007\/spelling-out-whole-numbers-in-hanyu-pinyin\/","title":{"rendered":"spelling out whole numbers in Hanyu Pinyin"},"content":{"rendered":"

By request, here’s the pattern. <\/p>\n

Pay particular attention to the cases of wàn (萬 \/ 万) and yì (億 \/ 亿). When the numbers quantifying those are greater than ten, wàn and yì are written separately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
8<\/td>\nbā<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
58<\/td>\nwǔshíbā<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
658<\/td>\nliùbǎi wǔshíbā<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5,658<\/td>\nwǔqiān liùbǎi wǔshíbā<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
35,658<\/td>\nsānwàn<\/span> wǔqiān liùbǎi wǔshíbā<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
435,658<\/td>\nsìshísān wàn wǔqiān liùbǎi wǔshíbā<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9,435,658<\/td>\njiǔbǎi sìshísān wàn wǔqiān liùbǎi wǔshíbā<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
79,435,658<\/td>\nqīqiān jiǔbǎi sìshísān wàn wǔqiān liùbǎi wǔshíbā<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
379,435,658<\/td>\nsānyì<\/span> qīqiān jiǔbǎi sìshísān wàn wǔqiān liùbǎi wǔshíbā<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6,379,435,658<\/td>\nliùshísān yì qīqiān jiǔbǎi sìshísān wàn wǔqiān liùbǎi wǔshíbā<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

Still higher units follow the pattern of wàn and yì.<\/p>\n

Note: When líng (zero) is a medial, it is always written separately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
507<\/td>\nwǔbǎi líng qī<\/td>\n五百零七<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
40,507<\/td>\nsìwàn líng wǔbǎi líng qī<\/td>\n四萬零五百零七<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By request, here’s the pattern. Pay particular attention to the cases of wàn (萬 \/ 万) and yì (億 \/ 亿). When the numbers quantifying those are greater than ten, wàn and yì are written separately. 8 bā 58 wǔshíbā … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,32,20,600,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese","category-mandarin","category-pinyin","category-pinyin-rules","category-romanization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7820,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649\/revisions\/7820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}