How to read Chinese numerals


 * There are two different schemes of numbers. The financial style is used to prevent forgery/alteration in records. You can see how the simple characters can be altered easily.
 * Chinese stamps and overprints used/use the financial characters.
 * Japanese stamps and overprints mostly used/use the simple characters.
 * For denominations, the currency character follows the string of numerals so everyone knows which way to read the numbers. Those characters are:
 * Cent trad.png = cent
 * Yuan II trad.png = yuan or dollar. When expressed in arabic numerals, the "$" is used.
 * Yuan I.png = also yuan or dollar
 * Yuan modern.png = yuan or dollar, the modern character
 * Numbers always include the character for tens, hundreds, etc. So "two hundred and seventy-five" is written as "2-100-7-10-5".





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