Japanese Number

For this week's writing tutorial we will introduce you to writing and reading numbers using Kanji symbols, to help you make up any number from 1 to a billion. 1 2 3 4 5   Ichi　 一 Ni　 二 San　 三 shi (yon) 　四 Go　 五 6 7 8 9 10   Roku　 六 shichi (nana)　 七 Hachi　 八 kyuu (ku)　 九 Jyuu　 十 Tip: For easy pronunciation, the words in brackets above are often used instead. To build up the numbers from 11 to 99 it is very easy as they are made from combinations of the numbers 1 to 10 as a logical consequence. For example: 11 17 30   jyuu-ichi　 十一 jyuu-shichi (jyuu-nana )十七 san-jyuu 三十 62 84 95   roku-jyuu-ni　 六十二 hachi-jyuu-shi (hachi-jyuu-yon)　 八十四 kyuu-jyuu-go 九十五 To help you understand how the above symbols are derived, the following examples demonstrate the basic equations: 10 + 1 = 11 10 + 7 = 17 3 × 10 = 30 6 × 10 + 2 = 62 8 × 10 + 4 = 84 9 × 10 + 5 = 95 There are different symbols for the numbers from 100 to a billion when written in Kanji. For example: a hundred 200 501   Hyaku (byaku)　 百 ni-hyaku 二百 go-hyaku-ichi 五百一 a thousand 3,000 6,400   sen (zen) 千 san-zen 　三千 roku-sen-yon-hyaku 六千四百   ten thousand 73,900   Man 万 nana-man-san-zen-kyuu-hyaku 七万三千九百 a hundred million 150,000,000   Oku 億 ichi-oku-go-sen-man 一億五千万 a billion 2,800,000,000,000   Chou 兆 ni-chou-hachi-sen-oku 二兆八千億