OFFSET
0,1
REFERENCES
Any Chinese dictionary.
LINKS
Felix Fröhlich, Table of n, a(n), pinyin for n = 0..100
Omniglot, Numbers in Mandarin Chinese.
Wikipedia, Chinese numerals.
Wikipedia, Pinyin.
EXAMPLE
a(21) = 7 because the Chinese word for 21 is, in the official romanization (pinyin), "er shi yi", which has seven letters.
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn,word
AUTHOR
Wei Ji Ma (weijima(AT)gmail.com), Sep 05 2005
EXTENSIONS
Name clarified by Felix Fröhlich, Jan 15 2017
STATUS
approved