How to Write Numbers 30-99 in Chinese

Video Transcript

"So basically, we see from "one" to "ten", "eleven" to "nineteen" and then "twenty" to "twenty-nine" and some kind of rule probably is forming in our minds that we can follow such rule to continue form Chinese numbers. So we will go from "twenty-nine" to "thirty". That's "sa shi" o.k. that's "thirty" and then going on we'll just change the last one to "yi, er, san, si, wu, liu, qi, ba, jiu" then that becomes from "thirty-one" to "thirty-nine" and then "si shi" "forty". That's "si" the character "four" in front of "ten" "si shi yi" and that's the way you form the rest of "forty" range and then "wu shi er" that is "fifty-two" and "liu shi san" "liu shi san" "sixty-three". "Liu shi si" "sixty-four" and "qi shi wu" "seventy-five". "Seventy-six" "qi shi liu" and then "ba shi qi" "eighty-seven". "Eighty-eight" and "jiu shi jiu" that is "ninety-nine". So one to ninety-nine, I think, that's a pretty combination that you can follow to make up all these numbers."