Tiexn'oe
tiexn'oe (tien+oe; 電話; telephone)
Numbers
There are two sets of numbers in Taiwanese: the literary style (peh, usually used to recite numbers 0 through 9 on the telephone) and the colloquial style (buun, usually used to count objects). The colloquial readings come from Ancient Han Chinese/Old Chinese (Kor Harnguo) (ca. 0 BCE/CE), whereas the literary readings come from Han Chinese during the Southern Song Dynasty (1127-1279) (Kixntai Harnguo).
| 1 | 2 | 3 / 三 | 4 / 四 | 5 / 五 | 6 / 六 | 7 / 七 | 8 / 八 | 9 / 九 | 10 / 十 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Peh | cit (蜀) | nng (兩) | svaf | six | go | lak | chid | pøeq | kao | zap |
| Buun | id (一) | ji (二) | safm | sux | gvor | liok | pad | kiuo | sip |
See Buun-peh-i-thak (Literary and colloquial readings of Chinese characters)