Count to 10 with ONE hand

Here's something fun and useful to know when you come to china. How to count!
Not only should you learn to speak and hear the numbers but China is awesome enough to have their own way of counting with their fingers without using both hands.

This is especially helpful when you are talking to people with strange accents and can't make out their Chinese.(like in Shanghai where the number 4 and 10 sound almost the same!!) OR if you have a bad Chinese accent.

So here's how you do it:

一 yi 1



二 er 2



三 san 3



四 si 4



五 wu 5


Now here's where they get tricky...

六 liu 6



七 qi 7



八 ba 8



九 jiu 9



十 shi 10 (this is the most common for ten... )



十 shi 10 (this is also sometimes used for ten)


Here's a video of all the hand motions as well as audio of how to pronounce the number.