Jin numbers

Jin numbers

 Jin numbers is a group of Chinese dialects or languages spoken by roughly 63 million people in northern China. Its geographical distribution covers most of Shanxi province except for the lower Fen River valley, much of central Inner Mongolia, and adjoining areas in Hebei, Henan, and Shaanxi provinces.

Jin was divided into 8 subgroups:

Bingzhou

spoken in central Shanxi (the ancient Bing Province), including Taiyuan.

Lüliang

spoken in western Shanxi (including Lüliang) and northern Shaanxi.

Shangdang

spoken in the area of Changzhi (ancient Shangdang) in southeastern Shanxi.

Wutai

spoken in parts of northern Shanxi (including Wutai County) and central Inner Mongolia.

Da–Bao

spoken in parts of northern Shanxi and central Inner Mongolia, including Baotou.

Zhang-Hu

spoken in Zhangjiakou in northwestern Hebei and parts of central Inner Mongolia, including Hohhot.

Han-Xin

spoken in southeastern Shanxi, southern Hebei (including Handan), and northern Henan (including Xinxiang).

Zhi-Yan

spoken in Zhidan County and Yanchuan County in northern Shaanxi.

Jin numbers are an ancient Chinese counting system used to account for large numbers. They are based on the Chinese characters for one, two, and ten. The numbers  created by combining the characters for one, two, and ten in various combinations. For example, the character for one is 一 (yī), the character for two is 二 (èr), and the character for ten is 十 (shí). By combining these characters, one can create numbers up to 1,000,000,000,000. For example, the number three would be written 三 (sān), the number twenty–one would be written 二十一 (èrshíyī), and the number one million would be written 一百萬 (yī bǎi wàn).

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