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The Chinese character numeral system consists of the Chinese characters used by the Chinese written language to write spoken numerals.

Similar to spelling-out numbers in English ( e. g., " one thousand nine hundred forty-five "), it is not an independent system per se.

Since it reflects spoken language, it does not use the positional system as in Arabic numerals, in the same way that spelling out numbers in English does not.