Big Numbers in Chinese

8/11/2021

Today's post is a quick one. I just wanted a handy reference of big numbers in Chinese. Let's start with 1000:

千(qiān)
1000
Multiples of ten that get their own bespoke words are
万(wàn)
10000
亿(yì)
100 million
兆(zhào)
one trillion i.e. 10^12