 :The special Number word “wan”=万= ten thousand！ What is different from American English is that when you get to ten-thousand, Chinese has its own word (wan4), unlike English where you must use a compound of ten and thousand. Only after ten thousand does Chinese start using compounds itself. One-hundred thousand is "shi wan 十万" (where “wan 万” is the Chinese word for ten-thousand that English lacks). Chinese goes on like this until 100 million (yi亿), where it introduces a new character. This happens every four decimal places, unlike American English where it happens every three decimal places (thousand, million, billion, trillion, etc. are all separated by three decimal places).
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