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Chinese numerals

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Chinese numerals are still used for some purposes in China and Japan (such as on currency). The Hanzi (Kanji) characters for digits 0 to9 are: 〇, 一, 二, 三, 四, 五, 六, 七, 八, 九. However, these characters are not exactly used as digits.

Chinese numerals
Hanzi HTML entity Readings C J K V Unicode label Unicode block
0 〇 N/A? N/A? U+3007 Ideographic Number Zero CJK Symbols and Punctuation
1 一 “one,” “alone” yī いち 일 nhất U+4E00 CJK Ideograph 4E00 CJK Unified Ideographs
2 二 “two,” “twice” èr に 이 nhì U+4E8C CJK Ideograph 4E8C CJK Unified Ideographs
3 三 “three” sān さん 삼 tam U+4E09 CJK Ideograph 4E09 CJK Unified Ideographs
4 四 “four” sì し 사 tứ U+56DB CJK Ideograph 56DB CJK Unified Ideographs
5 五 “five,” also part of a surname wǔ ご 오 ngũ U+4E94 CJK Ideograph 4E94 CJK Unified Ideographs
6 六 “six” liù ろく 륙/육 lục U+516D CJK Ideograph 516D CJK Unified Ideographs
7 七 “seven” qī なな 칠 thất U+4E03 CJK Ideograph 4E03 CJK Unified Ideographs
8 八 “eight,” “all around,” “all sides” bā はち 팔 bát U+516B CJK Ideograph 516B CJK Unified Ideographs
9 九 “nine” jiǔ きゅ 구 cửu U+4E5D CJK Ideograph 4E5D CJK Unified Ideographs
10 十 “ten” shí じゅ 십 thập U+5341 CJK Ideograph 5341 CJK Unified Ideographs

Unicode code points (in decimal rather than hexadecimal) are listed in A061745.

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