Mandarin · Chapter 4 · Lesson 4 · Grammar primer
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Grammar for HSK 1.
The short version
Mandarin counts in fours and resets at 万 (wàn)
There is no single word for 'million'. Numbers group in blocks of four and reset at 万 (wàn, 10,000), so 100,000 is 十万 (shí wàn), literally ten ten-thousands, and a million is 一百万 (yì bǎi wàn). Converting from English, divide the digit count by four rather than three, and slow down.
一百万 yì bǎi wàn
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