How to read Chinese numerals

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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. That said, Chinese stamps and overprints use the financial characters while Japanese stamps and overprints mostly use the simple characters.

You will need the key above for figuring out surcharges that don't use arabic numerals. The currency character always follows the string of numerals so everyone knows which way to read the numbers. Those characters are:

Otherwise, reading numbers is straightforward. 



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