So you never miss a digit. Listening practice for Chinese numbers, prices, dates, times, and phone numbers.
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Six listening test types aimed at the moments that actually trip learners up: a taxi fare, a phone number at speed, a discount at the till.
From 零 to 亿. The ten-thousand regrouping that never automatizes on its own: 三十五万 is 350,000 and 两千三百万 is 23,000,000. Train it until it is reflex.
Colloquial 块 and 毛, the way shops and taxis actually say it. 三块五 is ¥3.50, and the trailing unit disappears exactly when you need it.
Years read digit by digit: 二零二六年 is 2026. Months with 月, days with 号, and the year-month-day order that trips US-trained ears.
两点 is 2:00 and never 二点. Halves with 半, quarters with 刻, and 差五分 patterns at conversation speed.
11-digit mobile numbers in the real 3-4-4 rhythm, with 幺 instead of 一: the digit speakers swap in so 1 never sounds like 7.
百分之三十 puts the 30 last in 30%. 打八折 means 20% off, not 80%. The shopping math no app trains.
Numbers, prices, dates, times, phone numbers, or discounts. Set the difficulty range.
Press play, hear Standard Mandarin, type the digits. Replay if you need to.
Instant scoring. Misses go to your mistake pile for review. Streaks keep you honest.
Listening-first guides to the parts of Chinese numbers that trip learners up, written with native-speaker review.
Chinese groups by ten thousand, not thousand. Why 三十五万 is 350,000 and how to hear it without doing math.
Spoken Chinese drops the final unit word. The rule, its 零 mirror image, and where it catches you in prices.
The foundation. How 0 to 99 is built from eleven sounds, and the 14 vs 40 trap that survives into intermediate levels.
打八折 means you pay 80%, so the discount is 20%. The inversion that trips every shopper, plus 百分之 percentages.
Sì falls, shí rises. The tone cue that separates 4 from 10 when the consonants blur, plus the famous tongue twister.
块 and 毛, the register shops and taxis actually use, and why ¥3.50 arrives as 三块五.
Countfu is a focused listening-practice tool for Chinese numbers. It plays a number in Standard Mandarin, you type the digits you hear, and you get an instant score. It is built for Mandarin learners who know the number words on paper but cannot catch them at native speed.
Three problems stack up. Chinese groups large numbers by ten-thousand, so 三十五万 is 35 x 10,000 = 350,000 and you must regroup in your head while listening. Colloquial speech drops trailing units, so 三百五 means 350, not 305. And 四 (sì, 4) versus 十 (shí, 10) is a genuine minimal pair at speed. Focused listening practice is the only reliable fix.
Cardinal numbers from 零 up to 亿-scale, prices in colloquial 块 and 毛, dates and digit-by-digit years, times, 11-digit phone numbers with 幺 for 1, and percentages and discounts like 打八折 (20% off).
No. You always answer in digits: hear 三百五, type 350. No character input, no IME, no pinyin typing.
Standard Mandarin (Putonghua), with native-speaker quality control on every audio file. Cantonese numbers sound completely different and are not covered.
Countfu is in development. Follow @countfu on TikTok for progress and Chinese number listening tips.
Countfu is built by a native Mandarin speaker and is the sibling of zahlhaus.com (German numbers) and numblr.io (English numbers).