Saturday, January 16, 2010

12 January: Numbers as a Language

This is the traditional Chinese character use in financial.
零 stands for zero.
壹 stands for one.
貳 stands for two.
叁 stands for three.
肆 stands for four.
伍 stands for five.
陸 stands for six.
柒 stands for seven.
捌 stands for eight.
玖 stands for nine.
拾 stands for ten.
佰 stands for hundred.
仟 stands for thousand.
萬 stands for ten thousand.
億 stands for a billion.
Thus 2010 in the Chinese translation is 貳
零 / 兩仟壹零

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