Eric's Tech Notes: php-chinese-numbers

//
// chinese_number()
// PHP function to return the UTF-8 (Unicode) encoding of a Chinese/Japanese number
// Works for numbers 0 - 9999
//
// (C) 2008 Eric Shalov. Free for all to use without restriction.
//
// Usage: echo chinese_number(55);
//

  function chinese_number($n) {
    $chinese_digits = array(
      0 => "&#12295;",
      1 => "&#19968;",
      2 => "&#20108;",
      3 => "&#19977;",
      4 => "&#22235;",
      5 => "&#20116;",
      6 => "&#20845;",
      7 => "&#19971;",
      8 => "&#20843;",
      9 => "&#20061;"
    );
    
    $s = "";
    $thousands = floor($n / 1000);
    $hundreds =  floor( ($n - $thousands*1000) / 100);
    $tens =      floor( ($n - $thousands*1000 - $hundreds*100) /  10);
    $ones =      floor(  $n - $thousands*1000 - $hundreds*100 - ($tens*10) );

    if($thousands > 1) $s .= $chinese_digits[$thousands];
    if($thousands > 0) $s .= "&#21315;"; // qian
    if($hundreds  > 1) $s .= $chinese_digits[$hundreds];
    if($hundreds  > 0) $s .= "&#30334;"; // bai
    if($tens      > 1) $s .= $chinese_digits[$tens];
    if($tens      > 0) $s .= "&#21313;"; // shi
    if($ones > 0 || $n == 0) $s .= $chinese_digits[$ones];
    
    return $s;
  }

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