Beginner Lesson 4.2 – Chinese Characters: 一 to 十

How To Write Chinese Numbers In Characters

In China, people usually just write 1, 2, 3 when writing numbers. But just like in English, there are spelling form of numbers such as "one, two, three", there are also character-form numbers in Chinese.

Learning how to write numbers in Chinese Characters are just as important as learning how to say them. There are 10 basic characters: 1 to 10. And for digit jumping, there are words like bǎi 百 hundreds, qiān 千 thousands, wàn 万 ten thousands...So we'll start to learn how to write numbers in Chinese Characters with the 10 fundamental ones today and move on to bigger numbers in the future!

Chinese Numbers In Characters: 1 To 10

Start from here and these are the fundamental characters to all Chinese numbers. If you can write 1-10 in Chinese, you will be able to write 1-99 in Chinese numbers.