| 1 | 一 yāt |
| 2 | 二 yih |
| 3 | 三 sāam |
| 4 | 四 sei |
| 5 | 五 nǵh/ḿh |
| 6 | 六 luhk |
| 7 | 七 chāt |
| 8 | 八 baat |
| 9 | 九 gáu |
| 10 | 十 sahp |
| 11 | 十一 sahpyāt |
| 12 | 十二 sahpyih |
| 13 | 十三 sahpsāam |
| 14 | 十四 sahpsei |
| 15 | 十五 sahpnǵh |
| 16 | 十六 sahpluhk |
| 17 | 十七 sahpchāt |
| 18 | 十八 sahpbaat |
| 19 | 十九 sahpgáu |
| 20 | 二十 yihsahp |
| 100 一百 yāt baak |
| 1,000 一千 yāt chīn |
| 10,000 一萬 yāt maahn |
| 1,000,000 一百萬 yāt baak maahn |
| 100,000,000 一億 yāt yīk |
| 1,000,000,000 十億 sahp yīk |
| 3.2 三點二 sāam dím yih ‘three point two’ |
| $22.5 | 廿二 | 個 | 半 |
| yah-yih | go | bun | |
| twenty-two | CL | half | |
| ‘twenty-two and a half’ | |||
| 22 二十二 yihsahp-yih → 廿二 yah/yeh-yih |
| 34 三十四 sāamsahp-sei → 卅呀四 sà’ah-sei |
| 大概 | 二十 | 個 | 客人 | 左右 |
| daaihkoi | yihsahp | go | haakyàhn | jóyáu |
| approximately | twenty | CL | guests | left-right |
| ‘about twenty guests’ | ||||
| 一 | 千 | 蚊 | 咁 | 上 | 下 |
| yāt | chīn | mān | gam | seuhng | há |
| one | thousand | dollar | so | above | below |
| ‘a thousand dollars, give or take a bit’ | |||||
| 唔該， | 要 | 芥蘭 | 一 | 斤， | 豆腐 | 兩 | 嚿 |
| Mgōi | yiu | gaailáan | yāt | gān | dauhfuh | léuhng | gauh |
| please | want | gailan | one | catty | tofu | two | cake |
| ‘I’ll have a catty of gailan and two cakes of tofu, please.’ | |||||||
| 你 | 第 | 幾 | 次 | 睇 | 呢 | 個 | 醫生 | 呀？ |
| Léih | daih | géi | chi | tái | lī | go | yīsāng | a? |
| you | number | what | time | see | this | CL | doctor | SFP |
| ‘How many times have you seen this doctor?’ | ||||||||
| 嗰 | 筆 | 錢 | 唔見咗 | 四 | 份 | 三 |
| Gó | bāt | chín | mgin-jó | sei | fahn | sāam |
| that | CL | money | lose-PFV | four | part | three |
| ‘Three-quarters of that money went missing.’ | ||||||
| 相對 | 濕度 | 百份之 | 八十六 |
| Sēungdeui | sāpdouh | baak-fahn-jī | baatsahp-luhk |
| relative | humidity | hundred-part | eighty-six |
| ‘The relative humidity is 86 per cent.’ | |||
| 呢 | 間 | 公司 | 今日 | 全場 | 七五 | 折 |
| Lī | gāan | gūngsī | gāmyaht | chyùnchèuhng | chāt-nǵh | jit |
| this | CL | store | today | whole-stock | seven-five | discount |
| ‘This store is offering 25 per cent off today.’ | ||||||
| 星期二/禮拜二 sīngkèih-yih/láihbaai-yih ‘Tuesday’, etc. |
| 今日 gāmyaht ‘today’ |
| 噖晚 kàhmmáahn or 尋晚 chàhmmáahn ‘last night’ |
| 聽朝 tīng jīu ‘tomorrow morning’ |
| 二 | 零 | 二 | 零 | 年 | 十二 | 月 | 十四 | 號 |
| Yih | lìhng | yih | lìhng | lìhn | sahpyih | yuht | sahpsei | houh |
| two | zero | two | zero | year | twelve | month | fourteen | day |
| ‘The fourteenth of December, 2020.’ | ||||||||
| 兩 | 個 | 鐘 | 三 | 粒 | 鐘 | |
| léuhng | go | jūng | sāam | lāp | jūng | |
| two | CL | hour | three | CL | hour | |
| ‘two hours’ | ‘three hours’ (colloquial) | |||||
| 而家 | 幾 | 點 | 呀? |
| Yìhgā | géi | dím | a? |
| now | how | hour | SFP |
| ‘What time is it now?’ | |||
| 9:30 九點半 gáu dím bun |
| 7:20 七點四個字 chāt dím sei go jih |
| 8:15 八點三 baat dím sāam |