{"id":5476,"date":"2026-06-15T09:12:58","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T09:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/18kenglish.com\/english-numbers-taiwan-pros-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T09:12:58","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T09:12:58","slug":"english-numbers-taiwan-pros-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/18kenglish.com\/fr\/english-numbers-taiwan-pros-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"\u82f1\u6587\u6578\u5b57: 7 Big Number Rules Taiwan Pros Master (2026) | \u82f1\u6587\u6578\u5b57\u5b8c\u6574\u6307\u5357"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last year a Taipei sales manager closed a US$2.5 million deal \u2014 and almost lost it because she said “two-point-five thousand thousand dollars” on the call. \u82f1\u6587\u6578\u5b57<\/strong> trips up almost every Taiwanese professional at some point, and the reason is structural: Chinese groups large numbers every four zeros (\u842c, \u5104, \u5146), while English groups every three zeros (thousand, million, billion). Translate digit-for-digit and you sound either confused or vastly underpriced. The fix is a small set of rules you can drill in an afternoon.<\/p>\n

This guide gives you seven of those rules \u2014 the ones that come up in real workplace English: meetings, emails, presentations, phone calls, and the occasional uncomfortable salary conversation. Each section solves a specific mistake I hear from adult learners in Taipei every week. Memorize the conversion cheat sheet, and big numbers stop being scary.<\/p>\n

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Notice how every English number on a stock page groups in threes \u2014 the secret to reading \u82f1\u6587\u6578\u5b57 fast.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u82f1\u6587\u6578\u5b57: Why \u842c and \u5104 Make Your Brain Glitch (\u842c \u5104 \u70ba\u4ec0\u9ebc\u8b93\u4eba\u5361\u4f4f)<\/h2>\n

Mandarin counts in blocks of four zeros<\/strong>: \u842c (10,000), \u5104 (100,000,000), \u5146 (1,000,000,000,000). English counts in blocks of three<\/strong>: thousand (1,000), million (1,000,000), billion (1,000,000,000). The boundaries don’t line up, so the brain has to do live arithmetic mid-sentence \u2014 and live arithmetic is the enemy of fluent speech.<\/p>\n

Here’s the worst part: 1\u842c is not “one ten-thousand” in normal English. It’s “ten thousand.” Nobody says “one ten-thousand.” That single substitution \u2014 replacing the Chinese counting unit with an English one \u2014 is what makes most Taiwanese speakers freeze. The fix is to stop translating and start chunking. When you see a Chinese number, mentally rewrite it with English commas every three digits, then read left to right.<\/p>\n

The rule I teach first: commas are reading guides<\/strong>. Every three digits in English has a comma, and each comma has a name. Right of the first comma = thousands. Right of the second = millions. Right of the third = billions. That’s it. The number 25,000,000 reads as “twenty-five million” because the “million” comma is the one that matters. You’re not counting digits \u2014 you’re naming commas.<\/p>\n

The 3-Zero Rule: How English Groups Big Numbers (\u82f1\u6587\u6578\u5b57\u4e09\u4f4d\u4e00\u7d44\u7684\u898f\u5247)<\/h2>\n

English numbers move up by a factor of 1,000 each step \u2014 not 10,000 the way Chinese does. Master this single ladder and the rest is detail:<\/p>\n