Numbers & Counting
0-10, and counting things
HSK 1 · A1 · 12 words
Tone focus
一 (yī) changes tone by context: yì before a 4th tone, yí before others. On its own it's yī.
Vocabulary
Pinyin colour = tone:1st2nd3rd4thneutral/mixed
一
yī
one
二
èr
two
三
sān
three
四
sì
four
五
wǔ
five
六
liù
six
七
qī
seven
八
bā
eight
九
jiǔ
nine
十
shí
ten
百
bǎi
hundred
千
qiān
thousand
Grammar
Measure words: 个
Chinese counts nouns with a measure word: number + 个 (ge) + noun. 个 is the catch-all.
三个人
sān ge rén
three people
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