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Chinese numerals

Chinese numerals is the plural of Chinese numeral.

Meaning of Chinese numeral

Noun

Chinese numeral (plural Chinese numerals)

  1. A number represented using a Chinese system involving the characters 一, 二, 三, etc.
  2. (in plural) The system using such numerals, still employed in Chinese- and Japanese-speaking countries and formerly used in Korean- and Vietnamese-speaking ones.

Questions about Chinese numerals

What is Chinese numerals the plural of?
Chinese numerals is the plural of Chinese numeral.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Chinese numerals (page history and authors); Chinese numeral (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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