COUNTING LARGE

NUMBERS
HUNDRED TO TRILLION

HUNDRED

NUMBER + HYAKU
Examples:

200 = ni hyaku
400 = yon hyaku
Exceptions:
100

HYAKU

300

SAN-BYAKU

600

ROP-PYAKU

800

HAP-PYAKU

THOUSAND

NUMBER + SEN
Examples:

5000 = go sen
7000 = nana sen
Exceptions:
1000

SEN IS-SEN within larger

numbers)

3000

SAN-ZEN

8000

HAS-SEN

10 THOUSAND

NUMBER + MAN
Examples:

20 000 = ni man
60 000 = roku man
90 000 = ky man

How would you say these numbers?

A. 150
B. 25000
C. 90909
D. 3620
E. 17800
F. 358
G. 7650
H. 1165
I. 11111

A.Hyaku go j
B.Ni man go sen
C.Ky man ky hyaku ky
D.San zen rop-pyaku ni j
E.Ichi man nana sen hap-pyaku
F.San-byaku go j hachi
G.Nana sen rop-pyaku go j
H.Sen hyaku roku j go
I. Ichi man is-sen hyaku j ichi

LARGER NUMBERS
100 thousand
1 million
10 million
100 million
1 billion
10 billion
100 billion
1 trillion

100 000
1 000 000
10 000 000
100 000 000
1 000 000 000
10 000 000 000
100 000 000 000
1 000 000 000 000

J man
Hyaku man
Sen man
Ichi oku
J oku
Hyaku oku
Sen oku
It-ch

DECIMALS

NUMBER + TEN + NUMBER

Examples:

0.25 = rei ten ni go

1.527 = ichi ten go ni nana

FRACTIONS
BOTTOM NUMBER + BUN NO + TOP NUMBER

Examples:

1/2
1/4
2/3

= ni bun no ichi
= yon bun no ichi
= san bun no ni