Tiexn'oe

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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 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 / 8 / 9 / 10 /
Peh cit () nng () svaf six go lak chid pøeq kao zap
Buun id () ji () safm sux gvor liok pad kiuo sip

See Buun-peh-i-thak (Literary and colloquial readings of Chinese characters)