How to say hundred in Chinese
| No. | yì bǎi | èr bǎi | sān bǎi | sì bǎi | wǔ bǎi |
100-900
(1-9) + bǎi | 一百 | 二百 | 三百 | 四百 | 五百 |
| 100 | 200 | 300 | 400 | 500 |
| liù bǎi | qī bǎi | bā bǎi | jiǔ bǎi | |
| 六百 | 七百 | 八百 | 九百 | |
| 600 | 700 | 800 | 900 | |
Expansion
| The Change of Tone of "yī" (one) |
| Have you ever noticed that the 100 is pronunced as "yì bǎi" instead of "yī bǎi" in the audio? Yes, you heard it correctly. The phonetic rule states that when "yī " is followed by the first tone (flat tone),second tone (rising tone) and the third tone (falling-rising tone), the tone of "yī " should change to the fourth tone (falling tone). For examples: |
| Word | O | P | | 100 | yī bǎi | yì bǎi | | 1,000 | yī qiān | yì qiān | | one year | yī nián | yì nián | | one day | yī tiān | yì tiān |
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| 110 or 101? |
| The pronunciation of 110 as "yì bǎi yī shí" may have troubled you for a while as it is easy to forget the "yī " in front of "shí" by mistakenly saying it like "yì bǎi shí". Here we will introduce you another short-cut to express the number 110, which is "yì bǎi yī", literally 100-1. For the Chinese number larger than 100, if it is ended with 0, like 120, it can be simply read as "yì bǎi èr " for short. people actually say it this way more often in daily life due to its simplicity. Let's see more examples as below: |
| NO. | Formal way | Shortcut | | 110 | yì bǎi yī shí | yì bǎi yī | | 120 | yì bǎi èr shí | yì bǎi èr | | 230 | èr bǎi sān shí | èr bǎi sān | | 440 | sì bǎi sì shí | sì bǎi sì | | 790 | qī bǎi jiǔ shí | qī bǎi jiǔ |
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| Common mistake: Never get wrong between the number 110 and 101. 110 is read yì bǎi yī, but 101 is read yì bǎi líng yī. So when 0 is in the middle of the number, 0 (líng) can never be omitted, and only when 0 is in the end of a number larger than 100, o can be silent. |
| No. | pīn yīn | No. | pīn yīn | | 110 | yì bǎi yī | 101 | yì bǎi língyī | | 120 | yì bǎi èr | 102 | yì bǎi língèr | | 340 | sān bǎi sì | 304 | sān bǎi língsì |
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Grammar
Express 100-999 in Chinese |
| No. | yì bǎi | èr bǎi | sān bǎi | sì bǎi | wǔ bǎi | 100-900
(1-9) + bǎi | 一 | 二 | 三 | 四 | 五 | | 100 | 200 | 300 | 400 | 500 | | liù bǎi | qī bǎi | bā bǎi | jiǔ bǎi | | | 六 | 七 | 八 | 九 | | | 600 | 700 | 800 | 900 | |
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| e.g. | | 327 | 300 | 20 | 7 | | sān bǎi | èr shí | qī | | 589 | 500 | 80 | 9 | | wǔ bǎi | bā shí | jiǔ |
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How to express 101 in Chinese? |
| When the number contains a zero in it, you should always read out 0 as líng. And no matter how many 0 there are in the middle of the number, you only have to read 0 ONCE. For example： |
| No. | Character | pīn yīn | | 101 | 一百零一 | yì bǎi líng yī | | 102 | 一百零二 | yì bǎi líng èr |
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How to say 110 in Chinese? |
| Saying the numbers larger than 100, if the number 1 occupies the tens digit, like 110 or 1,110. We should explicitly specify the Number of Tens contained in the number. For example： |
| No. | pīn yīn | Lit. translation | Wrong expression | | 110 | yì bǎi yī shí | One hundred + one + ten | yì bǎi shí Q | | 211 | èr bǎi yī shí yī | Two hundred + one + ten + one | èr bǎi shí yī Q | | 523 | wǔ bǎi èr shí sān | Five hundred + two + ten + three | - |
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