Counting in Chinese is a system you can finish learning in an afternoon. Ten characters carry the digits — 一 (yī), 二 (èr), 三 (sān), 四 (sì), 五 (wǔ), 六 (liù), 七 (qī), 八 (bā), 九 (jiǔ), 十 (shí) — and everything below 100 is assembled from them. This free printable page lays out all twelve entries in 田字格 (tián zì gé) grids with pinyin above each one, ready to print or save as a PDF without an account.
How 十 builds the rest
Ten is the hinge. Put a digit after 十 and you add: 十一 is eleven, 十五 is fifteen. Put a digit in front and you multiply: 二十 is twenty, 九十 is ninety. Use both positions at once and you reach everything between, so 三十五 is three tens plus five, thirty-five. At the top of the range 百 means hundred, and it does not stand alone: one hundred is written 一百. When a zero falls inside a number, 零 (líng) fills the hole, which is why 105 comes out as 一百零五.
二 or 两
Both mean two, and learners mix them up for months. 二 is the digit, used for reading numbers aloud (二十, 十二), for dates such as 二月, and for ordinals. 两 (liǎng) goes in front of a measure word instead: 两个人 for two people, 两杯茶 for two cups of tea. Tone changes matter here too, because 一 shifts tone according to the syllable that follows it; paste a phrase into the tone sandhi checker to hear which version you need.
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Words on this worksheet: 一 (yī) — One; 二 (èr) — Two; 三 (sān) — Three; 四 (sì) — Four; 五 (wǔ) — Five; 六 (liù) — Six; 七 (qī) — Seven; 八 (bā) — eight; 九 (jiǔ) — Nine; 十 (shí) — Ten; 二十 (èr shí) — twenty; 百 (bǎi) — hundred. See also:
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What level is this worksheet?
It suits learners from about HSK 1. That is an editorial estimate for the Numbers 1 to 100 topic, not an official HSK word list, so a few of its 12 words may be harder. Each word prints with tone-marked pinyin and an English meaning to help.
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