Chinese numerals are words and characters used to denote numbers in Chinese.

Today, speakers of Chinese use three written numeral systems: the system of Arabic numerals
used worldwide, and two indigenous systems. The more familiar indigenous system is based on
Chinese characters that correspond to numerals in the spoken language. These may be shared
with other languages of the Chinese cultural sphere such as Korean, Japanese, and Vietnamese.
Most people and institutions in China and Taiwan primarily use the Arabic or mixed Arabic-
Chinese systems for convenience, with traditional Chinese numerals used in finance, mainly for
writing amounts on checks, banknotes, some ceremonial occasions, some boxes, and on
commercials.[citation needed]

The other indigenous system is the Suzhou numerals, or huama, a positional system, the only
surviving form of the rod numerals. These were once used by Chinese mathematicians, and later
in Chinese markets, such as those in Hong Kong before the 1990s, but have been gradually
supplanted by Arabic (and also Roman) numerals.