1. Mandarin Language Level 1
Unit 3: Numbers
Lam Kai Chee
Centre for Language Studies
Universiti Malaysia Sarawak
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2. In this session, you will be
• introduced to numbers in Mandarin
• exposed to the formation of Chinese numbers
Session objectives
3. • The first three of them are
Numbers in Mandarin
yī / 1 èr / 2 sān /3
4. • While four, five, six are written as
sì /4 wŭ / 5
六
liù / 6
11. • Try recalling how to write “one”, “two”,
“three” in Chinese?
• Try saying out the answer in Mandarin when
you total up all the four figures in your year of
birth.
Shìshi kàn: now you try