Say you want to watch your favorite tv shows online, (hulu is not available in other place, those people think that the only country in the world is US), and you really want to watch it. You can go to Chinese video sites like youku.com and search for the shows that you want to watch, all you have to do is locate the search box and start searching. But how?
Usually they would name tv shows like heroes 第三季 07, or heroes第三季 第07集, now what does this mean? The first Chinese words, 第三季, means the 3rd quarter or the 3rd season, then the 2nd Chinese words, 第07集, means the 7th part or the 7th article or 7th set. Now what if i want to watch the 2nd episode in season 2? You would search something like ‘heroes 第二季 第2集’ or ‘heroes 第二季 第二集’ .
If we put it into a mathematical formula it should be something like
let search = x 第y季 第z集
where x is your favorite tv shows
y is the season number
z is the episode number
And here are the numbers for you to substitute from
1 = 一
2 = 二
3 = 三
4 = 四
5 = 五
6 = 六
7 = 七
8 = 八
9 = 九
10 = 十
So getting heroes season 1 ep 9 is like
search = heroes 第一季 第九集
What about numbers getter than ten? To get numbers beyond 10 you have to mix them in the formula
let num = x十y (the second character is not a plus but the Chinese ten 十)
where x be the multiplier of ten except 1, you will understand why except one later on
where y is from one to nine, then y would be added to the results of x十
Say you want to search for the 25th, it should be
二十五
Why? x is the multiplier then 2(10), 二十, is 20 then add 5,五, then its equal to 25, 二十五
Thirty four would be 三十四
Forty nine would be 四十九
You could simple rephase the formula to
let num = (x multiply to 10) plus y
Now from 11 to 19, you don’t need to add 一 to the front coz its the same with or without it.
And so 18 would be 十八
Fifteen would be 十五
If you find this way to complicated then you can use Google Translate, btw i’m not Chinese, i just studied in Hong Kong when i was small so i do know their language a bit.
Hope it helps and lets all hope that big media company would realize that there people outside US.
