how much?; how many? / (phone number, student ID etc) what number?

front / forward / ahead / first / top (followed by a number) / future / ago / before / BC (e.g. 前293年) / former / formerly

half / semi- / incomplete / (after a number) and a half

ten thousand / a great number

small number / few / minority

light / easy / gentle / soft / reckless / unimportant / frivolous / small in number / unstressed / neutral / to disparage

thread / string / wire / line / CL: 條｜条, 股, 根 / (after a number) tier (unofficial ranking of a Chinese city)

number / numerals / figures / digital / amount / numerical code

(after a verb or adjective) one who (is) ... / (after a noun) person involved in ... / -er / -ist / (used after a number or 後｜后 or 前 to refer to sth mentioned previously) / (used after a term, to mark a pause before defining the term) / (old) (used at the end of a command) / (old) this

numeral / digit / number / figure / amount / digital (electronics etc) / CL: 個｜个

classifier indicating a small amount or small number greater than 1: some, a few, several

(prefix indicating ordinal number, as in 第六 "sixth") / (literary) grades in which successful candidates in the imperial examinations were placed / (old) residence of a high official / (literary) but; however / (literary) only; just

dissatisfied; discontented; resentful / (before a number) to be less than

number of people

(TV or radio) program; show / item; act; segment; number (on the program of a concert, variety show or cultural event) / a planned activity (in one's schedule) / CL: 個｜个, 場｜场, 項｜项, 臺｜台, 套, 檔｜档

to come / (used as a substitute for a more specific verb) / hither (directional complement for motion toward the speaker, as in 回來｜回来) / ever since (as in 自古以來｜自古以来) / for the past (amount of time) / (prefix) the coming ...; the next ... (as in 來世｜来世) / (between two verbs) in order to / (after a round number) approximately / (used after 得 to indicate possibility, as in 談得來｜谈得来, or after 不 to indicate impossibility, as in 吃不來｜吃不来)

to enter; to go into / to join; to become a member of / (bound form) to conform to (as in 入時｜入时) / abbr. for 入聲｜入声 / (on product packaging, after {number n} + {classifier}) containing (n pieces) (from Japanese 入 "iri")

ocean / sea / CL: 個｜个, 片 / great number of people or things / (dialect) numerous

person-times / visits / classifier for number of people participating

large place used for a specific purpose / stage / scene (of a play) / classifier for sporting or recreational activities / classifier for number of exams

two / double / pair / both / even (number)

to touch briefly; to tap / to mark with a dot; to check off (on a list) / to order (food etc); to select / to mention; to bring up (a topic or person) / to hint at; to imply / to administer (eye medicine etc) in drops / to light (a fire, a lamp etc); to ignite / to nod (one's head) in agreement; to beckon by moving (one's hand) up and down / point; dot; spot; speck / dot stroke in Chinese characters / (math.) decimal point / point in time or space / (after a number) o'clock / a small amount; a bit; (after a verb or adjective) a bit more / classifier for small amounts

(bound form) whole; complete; entire; (before a measure word) whole; (before or after number + measure word) exactly / (bound form) in good order; tidy; neat / (bound form) to put in order; to straighten / (bound form) to repair; to mend; to renovate / (coll.) to fix sb; to give sb a hard time; to mess with sb / (dialect) to tinker with; to do sth to

like that; in that way; to that extent / (before a number) ... or so; about ... / then; in that case

ordinal number / day of a month / mark / sign / business establishment / size / ship suffix / horn (wind instrument) / bugle call / assumed name / to take a pulse / classifier used to indicate number of people

the emergency number for firefighting services in Mainland China

the emergency number for medical assistance and first aid in Mainland China

amount / number

bill / list / form / single / only / sole / odd number / CL: 個｜个

number; figure / several; a few

number / CL: 堆, 個｜个

telephone / CL: 部 / phone call / CL: 通 / phone number

to go forward / to advance / to go in / to enter / to put in / to submit / to take in / to admit / (math.) base of a number system / classifier for sections in a building or residential compound

number; amount / somewhat

number of times / frequency / order number (in a series) / power (math.) / degree of a polynomial (math.)

age (number of years old)

ranked number one in the world / the world's first

as it turns out / by lucky coincidence / (of number, time, size etc) just right

to increase / to grow in number

the emergency number for law enforcement in Mainland China and Taiwan

half the number; half

age limit / fixed number of years

peak / apex / world best / number one / finest (competitors) / top (figures in a certain field)

number plate / car license plate / CL: 條｜条, 塊｜块, 片

quota / number of places / place (in an institution, a group etc)

the Goldbach conjecture in number theory

bubble; foam / blister / to soak; to steep; to infuse / to dawdle; to loiter / to pick up (a girl) / to get off with (a sexual partner) / classifier for occurrences of an action / classifier for number of infusions

to pile up like a mountain (idiom) / a mountain of (paperwork etc) / a large number of sth

desirable number (for one's telephone, license plate etc) (i.e. one that includes memorable or auspicious combinations of digits)

to double / to increase by a certain number of times

employee number

first rate / top rank / number one

(archaic) agate / (bound form) standard weight used with a balance scale / number / (computing) code / (clothing) size / yard (unit of length) / (coll.) kilometers per hour (informal misuse of "yard" to mean kph in speed references) / (coll.) to pile up; to stack / classifier for matters, items, situations etc (esp. when indicating whether they are the same or different, as in 不是一碼事｜不是一码事 "not the same thing") / (Tw, HK) (finance) unit of 25 basis points (i.e. a 0.25% change in interest rate)

generation / period of 30 years / one's whole lifetime / lifelong / age / era / times / the whole world / the First (of numbered European kings)

population (counted as number of households for census or taxation) / registered residence / residence permit / (in Hong Kong and Macau) bank account

to make up the number (i.e. to fill places up to a given number) / to serve as stopgap

capital city of a country / big / algebraic term for a large number (old) / artificial mound (old)

a large number

license plate / number plate

number of days / fate / destiny

number of votes / poll count

a number of / each and every one / one by one; one after another

vehicle number (license plate number, taxi number, bus number, train car number)

hole / opening / cut / gap / gash / my husband or wife / classifier for people (used for indicating the number of people in a family etc) / precedent

science and technology is the number one productive force (from a 1978 speech by Deng Xiaoping 鄧小平｜邓小平 introducing the Four Modernizations 四個現代化｜四个现代化)

person / number of people / (per) capita / (a person's) head / (Tw) person whose identity is used by sb else (e.g. to create a bogus account)

unknown number / (fig.) an unknown; an uncertainty

second (i.e. number two) / second time / twice / (math.) quadratic (of degree two)

(math.) to exponentiate; to raise (a number) to a power / exponentiation; power

hand foot and mouth disease, HFMD, caused by a number of intestinal viruses, usually affecting young children

hundreds / a large number / lit. by the hundreds and thousands

number of times (sth happens) / number of chapters in a classical novel / (math.) palindromic number

whole number / integer (math.) / round figure

a certain number or amount / how many? / how much?

remainder (after rounding a number) / decimal part (of number after the decimal point) / mantissa (i.e. fractional part of common logarithm in math.) / small change / balance (of an account)

to count as number one (idiom); second to none / outstanding

amount / sum of money / fixed number

(number of) degrees of freedom (physics and statistics)

atomic number

positive odd number (also written 奇數｜奇数) / singular (grammar)

number; amount

ancient banquet game of throwing arrows into a pot, the winner determined by the number of arrows thrown in, and the loser required to drink as punishment

odd (number)

number of infected persons

to err / to dial a wrong number / to make a typo

odd number

number of items or individuals

ordinal number / serial number / sequence number

grade / class number (in school) / flight or run number / flight or run (seen as an item) / shift (work period)

five stroke input method for Chinese characters by numbered strokes, invented by Wang Yongmin 王永民 in 1983

instance of administering a dose of vaccine / number of vaccinations

the 12 earthly branches 子, 丑, 寅, 卯, 辰, 巳, 午, 未, 申, 酉, 戌, 亥 (used cyclically in the calendar and as ordinal number)

real number (math.) / actual value

number of people in a family / population / (old) adult males / male servants

people's war, military strategy advocated by Mao whereby a large number of ordinary citizens provide support in a campaign

inverse number / reciprocal (math.)

mark / sign / label / to mark with a symbol, label, lettering etc / to bear (a brand name, registration number etc) / prize / award / bid / target / quota / (old) the topmost branches of a tree / visible symptom / classifier for military units

abbr. of 五筆字型｜五笔字型, five stroke input method for Chinese characters by numbered strokes, invented by Wang Yongmin 王永民 in 1983

a nonnegative number (i.e. positive or zero)

(of a large number of things) to form an expanse / to cover an area