Looking for plural forms of Mandarin Chinese nouns?

Short answer: No need for that~

Q and A: How to write 2015 in Chinese?

How do we write the year 2015 in Chinese?

Short answer: you can just write 2015 in the Hindu–Arabic numeral way, we can understand it perfectly. 😀

Q and A: How to write seventeen thousand in Chinese?

How do we write seventeen thousand (17000) in Chinese?

OK! As a rule of thumb, English speakers divide large numbers by 10^3 while people who use Chinese divide large numbers by 10^4 .

And that’s the key point when you translate large numbers from English to Chinese.

*We set “large numbers” to numbers larger than 9999 ( less than astronomical numbers) here.

Take a look of this example:

17000= 1*(10^4)+7*1000

while

1 = 「一」

10^4 = 「萬」（simplified:「万」）

7 = 「七」

1000 = 「千」

thus

17000 = 「一萬七千」（simplified:「一万七千」）

 

*possible pit hole: 10^12 「兆」

China use 「万亿」to express 10^12 instead.

「万亿」=「万」*「亿」

10^12 = (10^4) * (10^8)

Reference:  China statutory measurement units（中华人民共和国法定计量单位）, page 4