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Chinese numerals

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words and characters used to denote numbers in Chinese

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Instance of
numeral system
Subclass of
numeral
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Category:Chinese numerals
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Standard Chinese
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Chinese numerals
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Chinese numerals
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Encyclopedic overview

Chinese and Arabic numerals may coexist, as on this kilometer marker: 1,620 km (1,010 mi) on highway G209 (G二〇九), where "209" appears in positional notation as "二〇九", rather than the more common "二百九"

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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Chinese numerals” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.