Hi guys! And welcome back to "Enjoyable Characters"
Today our topic is "Numbers"
And the first three characters are 1, 2 and 3
And you can see it's so easy
These three characters are the first three that I recognized
They're like "sticks" right?
one stick, two sticks, and three sticks
Now you're thinking, if we keep on going number 4 should be four sticks, right?
Unfortunately it's not.
It's another picture that's very easy to recognize.
You can think of it as a window
with curtains on the side. Can you see it?
And then number 5
It's an "iron"
The character here.
Okay number 5
Then 6
Looks exactly like a "circus tent"
7
It's just two lines, right?
It's so easy to remember.
Seven is a lucky number in the States.
But in the Chinese language,
the lucky number is 6 and 8 .
Moving on, number 8
You may think that it looks familiar
because maybe you have already learned "person"
which looks like this
and "entrance"
which is also just two lines
It looks like this.
Number 8 is as you can see,
like this, also two lines it's like a "mustache"
but it is not connected in the middle
It's separated
8
Number 9 is
Also two lines.
You can see it as a person who's crossing their legs.
Last but not least
Number 10
which looks exactly like a "cross." See...
What's really easy about Chinese number characters
is that once you know number 1 to number 10,
you can create up to 99 number combinations
So it's really simple, really easy.
How do you say number 11?
Number 11 is 10 and 1, right?
So in Chinese it's
Let's try that again.
How about 15?
15 is 10 and 5, right?
So together it's
Going up,
30 is 3 "tens"
So together in Chinese, it's
3 "tens"
How about number 33?
It's 3 "tens" plus a 3
So it's basically
3 "tens" with another 3
And the luckiest number in Chinese language
6 and 8
68
In Chinese, it's
6 "tens" with 8
And the biggest number in the two digit category, 99
Well that's all for today.
Congratulations on learning your numbers from 1 to 99 today in merely minutes.
This is joy and you're watching "Enjoyable Characters"
I'll see you next time! 下次见! (xià cì jiàn)
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