I'm starting to learn Mandarin Chinese and just found a great joke.

First five numbers in Chinese:

(Note that the first three are lines, with 1 line for one, 2 for two, and 3 for three. It seems like it could continue, but the later numbers are unrelated.)

One day, a little kid was learning to write. He learned the first three numbers and thought "That was easy, I know how to write any number now!"

Soon after this, his dad wanted him to write down some numbers and said to the kid "Please write down ten thousand."

The kid was there for a while.