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Numbers.

Figures.

1
Yat
2
[1]
3
Sám
4
Sz or sí
5
Ng
6
Lok
7
Tsat
8
Pát
9
Kow
10
〡〸
Sháp
11
十一
Sháp yat
12
十二
Sháp yí
13
十三
Sháp sám
14
十四
Sháp sz

The Chinese figures in the left hand row are generally employed in the literature of the language. Those in the next column are used in those important matters wherein the complicated form of the figure may serve to prevent fraud. Those in the last row are the brief short hand figures of every day transactions.

  1. The word 兩 laung is generally employed for 2 in colloquial discourse.