自相组合的位数词表数功能初探

Number-Representing Functions of Compound Digit Words

现代汉语位数词可以自相组合,组成复合位数词,也有不借助于基数词而直接表数的功能。复合位数词有顺向组合和逆向组合两种。总体来说,顺向组合倾向于表概数,逆向组合倾向于表虚数。但它们的内部是有差异的,其中"亿万"尤为特殊。随着社会的发展,概数的含义也有了新的发展。

Digit words in Modern Chinese can combine themselves freely into compound digit words which also have functions of representing number directly.Compound Digit words can be divided into forward combination and backward combination,and generally the former usually represents the approximate figures,and the latter represents imaginary figures.However there are differences in their inner parts among which ＂hundreds of million＂ is a very special one.With the social development,the meaning of the approximate figures has gone through its new development as well.