# Writing Chinese Numbers: Practice Sheets from 一 to 万, with Formal Numerals You write 一 to 十 stroke by stroke, then prices, dates and phone numbers, and ¥3,080 as 叁仟零捌拾元整 on a cheque. Made for learners starting from zero, with every line on the free audio. Source: https://www.saymei.app/resources/downloads/writing-chinese-numbers-practice ## At a glance - Level: Total beginner · HSK 1 - Format: Workbook · PDF · 15 pages · US Letter (prints on A4) - Price: Free · free with a saymei account · updated Nov 4, 2026 ## Download Free with a SayMei account, on the workbook's page: https://www.saymei.app/resources/downloads/writing-chinese-numbers-practice. SayMei emails a copy too. ## A line from the workbook 这个字怎么写？ (Zhège zì zěnme xiě?) — How do you write this character? ## By the end you can - Write 一 to 十 in the right stroke order. Count the strokes, find the first one, and write each character five times while you count aloud. Then pick 八 out from 人 and 入, and 十 from 千 and 干. 一、二、三、四、五。 (Yī, èr, sān, sì, wǔ.): One, two, three, four, five. - Build any number up to 99,999 with 零, 百, 千 and 万. Write from the biggest place down, put one 零 in a gap in the middle, leave zeros at the end out, and use 两 before 千 and 万. 三万零八十 (sānwàn líng bāshí): 30,080 - Write price tags with 元 and say them with 块. Write prices like 三十八元 on a tag, then say them the way people do in a shop, with 块 in place of 元. 这件三十八块。 (Zhè jiàn sānshíbā kuài.): This one is 38 kuai. - Write dates in characters and say them with 号. Write the year digit by digit with 〇 for zero, then the month and 日. When you speak, 日 becomes 号. 十二月八号，八百八十八块。 (Shí'èr yuè bā hào, bābǎi bāshíbā kuài.): 8 December, 888 kuai. - Write phone numbers, room numbers and ages. Write phone numbers digit by digit with 〇 for zero, ages with 岁, and listen for yāo, the way 1 is said in phone and room numbers. 我住五零幺。 (Wǒ zhù wǔ líng yāo.): I'm in room 501. - Read the formal numerals 壹 to 仟. Learn the formal form of every digit and of 十, 百 and 千, plus 元, 角, 分 and 整. One stroke turns 一 into 十, but nothing turns 壹 into another number, so banks and receipts use them. 大写数字怎么写？ (Dàxiě shùzì zěnme xiě?): How do you write the formal numbers? - Write money amounts on a cheque, a receipt and a red envelope. Write amounts like 叁仟零捌拾元整 for ¥3,080, read them aloud like ordinary numbers, then fill in a receipt, a calendar and a red envelope. 三千零八十元整。 (Sānqiān líng bāshí yuán zhěng.): ¥3,080.00 exactly. ## What's inside - One to Ten: One to Five, Stroke by Stroke · Six to Ten, Stroke by Stroke - Big Numbers: Build Numbers Up to 99,999 · Write Numbers from 11 to 99,999 - Money and Dates: Write Prices and Dates · Phone Numbers and Ages - Formal Numbers: The Formal Numerals 壹 to 仟 · Write Amounts in Formal Numerals - Review: Receipt, Calendar and Red Envelope ## How to use this book Nine practice pages in order: one to ten, big numbers, money and dates, then the formal numerals. Play each line on the free audio, say it back, then write it. At a page a day, you finish in nine days. - Days 1–2: One to ten, stroke by stroke. Pages 3 and 4. Follow the stroke order above each grid, write slowly at first, then count up from 一 to 五 and down from 十 to 一 aloud. - Days 3–4: Big numbers. Pages 5 and 6. Learn where 零 goes and when two becomes 两, then write the year you were born and your favourite big number in characters. - Days 5–6: Prices, dates, phone numbers and ages. Pages 7 and 8. Write today's date and a price from this week, play the track for the room and phone numbers, then say your own number with yāo for 1. - Days 7–8: The formal numerals. Pages 9 and 10. Write 壹 to 拾 once each, then ¥1,688 in formal numerals, and read every amount aloud like an ordinary number. - Day 9: Receipt, calendar and red envelope. Page 11. Play the dialogue, fill in all four items in characters, read them aloud with 号 and 块, then check the whole book against the key. ## Who it's for Adult beginners who want to write Chinese numbers by hand, from 一 to 万, on price tags, dates, phone numbers, receipts and red envelopes. It also suits learners who can say the numbers but have never written them. Before you start: Nothing. The stroke order is printed above each grid, every Chinese line has pinyin and English, and the free audio reads each one with a pause to say it back. The answers are in the key at the back. ## What's inside? Nine practice pages: one to five and six to ten with stroke order, numbers up to 99,999, prices and dates, phone numbers and ages, the formal numerals 壹 to 仟, and amounts written in them. On the last page you fill in a receipt, a calendar and a red envelope. ## Why does Chinese have two ways to write numbers? Everyday numbers are quick to write, but one extra stroke changes them: 一 becomes 二, 三 or 十. The formal numerals, such as 壹, 贰 and 叁, can't be changed that way, so banks, cheques and receipts use them, and some wedding guests write them on red envelopes. Pages 9 and 10 teach them all. ## When do I write 〇 and when 零? Years and phone numbers are written digit by digit, with 〇 for zero: 二〇二六年. Inside a big number, 零 fills a gap in the middle, just once even for two zeros in a row (四千零六 is 4,006), and zeros at the end are left out (两千三百 is 2,300). ## Does it teach how to say the numbers too? Yes. Every practice page ends with numbers to say aloud, and the free audio reads every line with a pause. It also shows the spoken forms: 块 for 元 in prices, 号 for 日 in dates, and yāo for 1 in phone and room numbers. For a 1–100 speaking chart, see Chinese Numbers 1–100 Chart. ## How long does it take? Nine days at a page a day. Play each line on the free audio, say it back, then write it. On Day 9 you check the whole book against the key at the back. ## Do I need a SayMei account? Yes, to download the PDF, and the account is free: sign up with Google, Apple or your email address. With it we email you a copy of the workbook, keep every workbook you download on your account on all your devices, save your place in the free online practice, and you can practise speaking with Mei Lin, SayMei's AI tutor. ## How do I print it? The PDF is US Letter size. On A4 paper, choose "Fit to page" (or "Scale to fit") in the print dialog so nothing is cut off. Print the whole workbook or only the pages you need; colour looks best, and black and white works too. Version 2026-11, updated Nov 4, 2026.