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4.2 Eleven to Nineteen

Once you’ve learned the characters that represent 4 (四), 5 (五), 6 (六), 7 (七), 8 ( 八),

9 (九) and 10 (十), Chinese numbers, up to 99 (九 十九 jiǔshíjiǔ), are quite easy to learn.

For the numbers from 11 to 19, you take “shí” which means “ten” and then put the
small number after it. So you can say “ten one” for “11”, “ten two” for “12”, “ten three”
for “13” and etc.

Shíyī
十 一 (1 1)

Shíèr
十 二 (1 2)

Shísān
十 三 (1 3)

Shísì
十 四 (1 4)

Shíwǔ
十 五 (1 5)

Shíliù
十 六 (1 6)

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