CHINESE NUMERALS. QI
200, iii-hyaku 300 sam-byaku (for san hyaku)
1,000 is-sen (for ichi sen) 10,000 ichi -man
100,000 ju-man 1,000,000 hyaku -man
108 hyaku hachi 365 sam-byaku roku-ju-go
1,889 is-svu hap-pyakuh aclii-ju-ku 38,000,000 san-zen hap-pyaku man There is a term okn meaning 100,000, and a term cho meaning 1,000,000 ; but they are scarcely ever used, being almost always replaced by multiples of man, as in the examples just given.
IT 153. The Chinese numerals are not often used indepen- dently. It is customary to make them precede the noun, and they then form a sort of compound with the latter, as ichi-nen, "one year;" is-sun (for ichi suti), "one inch." In forming such combinations, note the category of letter-changes, of which the following are examples:
ch it-cho for ichi cho
one cho' 1 '
hat -cho jit -cho
,, hachi cho ,, jii, cho
eight ,, ten ,,
/and h ip-pun ip-pen
,, ichi fun ,, ichi hen
one minute once
sam-pun
sain-ben
,, san fun ,, san hen
three minutes thrice
r op -pun r op -pen
,, ro kit fun ,, roku hen
six minutes six times
j ip-pun jip-pen
,, jil fun
,, jil hen
ten minutes ten times
- A measure of distance equivalent to about 120 yards English.
f Some words change/, not into />, but into b; thus sam-buku, " three scrolls," from san and fuku.
