%I #16 Jan 21 2017 12:44:25

%S 4,2,2,3,2,2,3,2,2,3,3,5,5,6,5,5,6,5,5,6,5,7,7,8,7,7,8,7,7,8,6,8,8,9,

%T 8,8,9,8,8,9,5,7,7,8,7,7,8,7,7,8,5,7,7,8,7,7,8,7,7,8,6,8,8,9,8,8,9,8,

%U 8,9,5,7,7,8,7,7,8,7,7,8,5,7,7,8,7,7,8,7,7,8,6,8,8,9,8,8,9,8,8,9,5

%N Total number of letters of the official romanization (pinyin) of the word for n in Mandarin Chinese.

%D Any Chinese dictionary.

%H Felix Fröhlich, <a href="/A112349/a112349.txt">Table of n, a(n), pinyin for n = 0..100</a>

%H Omniglot, <a href="http://www.omniglot.com/language/numbers/chinese.htm">Numbers in Mandarin Chinese</a>.

%H Wikipedia, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_numerals">Chinese numerals</a>.

%H Wikipedia, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinyin">Pinyin</a>.

%H <a href="/index/Lc#letters">Index entries for sequences related to number of letters in n</a>

%e a(21) = 7 because the Chinese word for 21 is, in the official romanization (pinyin), "er shi yi", which has seven letters.

%Y Cf. A112348, A112350, A030166.

%K nonn,word

%O 0,1

%A Wei Ji Ma (weijima(AT)gmail.com), Sep 05 2005

%E Name clarified by _Felix Fröhlich_, Jan 15 2017