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For an answer greater than ten, there is another interrogative word that is constructed with <span class="notranslate">多 duō</span>. | For an answer greater than ten, there is another interrogative word that is constructed with <span class="notranslate">多 duō</span>. | ||
==How to pronounce years and phone numbers in Mandarin Chinese== | |||
When pronuncing a phone number or a year, it must be done digit by digit. | |||
When pronuncing phone numbers for instance, the Chinese often replace "<span class="notranslate">一</span>" by "<span class="notranslate">幺 <yāo></span>". | |||
The year "<span class="notranslate">2014</span>" is <span class="notranslate">二〇一四(年) ‹ èr líng yī sì (nián) › and not "<span class="notranslate">二千〇一十四</span>". | |||
==Sources== | ==Sources== | ||