Chinese Number Converter
Chinese Number Conversion. This tool understands the various number inputs and converts them to a Chinese character string.
HOW TUO USE THE CONVERTER
- Numbers : positive and negative numbers (ex : "-33" ou "8800980088")
- Dates : enter the date like "August 8, 2008" or "2008/01/20"
- Years : enter data in this form: "year 2008"
- Time : enter the time like "5:09" or "13:32"
- Money : enter a number with "$" (ex : "$888888.32")
- Fractions : enter positive or negative fraction like "-3/8"
- Decimals : enter positive or negative decimal number like "3.14"
- Percents : enter positive or negative percent like "-42%"
Chinese numbers are grouped in ten thousands, not thousands
This is the single thing that trips up every reader of Chinese figures, and it is not a matter of vocabulary. English groups digits in threes and names each group: thousand, million, billion. Chinese groups them in fours. There is a word for ten thousand, and the next named unit is a hundred million. A number that an English speaker reads as one hundred and twenty million is read in Chinese as twelve thousand wan, and converting in your head means regrouping the digits, not translating a word.
There is also a second set of numerals that a learner meets sooner than expected. Alongside the everyday characters there is a formal set, more complex and impossible to alter with a stroke of the pen, used on cheques, contracts and receipts for exactly that reason. They are the Chinese equivalent of writing a sum in words.
The converter handles both directions and both sets, along with the ordinary Arabic figures, so you can check a price, a date, a population figure or a sum written on a bank slip without doing the regrouping yourself.