Hokkien numerals

Sorji (數字 Hokkien numerals; numbers in Taiwanese) come in two different sets:

• colloquial (peh) is used the most
• literary (buun) is mostly for telephone numbers

	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

p⃟ cit, nng, svaf, six, go, lak, chid, peq, kao, zap

b⃟ id, ji, safm, sux, gvor, liok, chid, pad, kiuo, sip

To count "how many"

To count "how many", "cardinal numbers" are used. Use the colloquial system together with a classifier (the classifier will change tone when spoken). For example:

cidtaai tiexnsi 🔊, nngxtaai tiexnsi, svataai tiexnsi, ...

one television, two televisions, ...

ji-zap-taai chiaf 🔊, ji-zap-id-taai chiaf 🔊, ji-zap-ji-taai chiaf 🔊

20 cars, 21 cars, 22 cars, ...

For numbers greater than ten, id and ji are used in the lower positions. For example:

120 is pahji, 220 is nngxpahji and 1,100 is cidzheng'id. Khoxng (空^†) is used similar to o for zero

svapaq khoxng go

three hundred and five (305)

nngxpaq, nngxchiefn, nngxban 🔊

200, 2000, 20,000

Other cases

Ordinal numbers

For ordinal numbers, when the numerals are preceded by the prefix te (第), only "1st" and "2nd" use literary, the rest use colloquial: texid, texji, texsvaf, texsix, texgo, etc.

Telephone digits

telephone number: 3945068

Telephone digits are read using the literary system. The digits are grouped according to certain rules and tone sandhi is applied. For example, 3945068 🔊 is read: safm-kiuo-sux, gvor-khoxng, liok-pad (see Khax Tiexn'oe).