Chinese-number is a package for converting number format between Arabic and Chinese. If you want to convert a Arabic number to chinese, you can: M-x chinese-number--convert-arabic-to-chinese and input the Arabic number, or you may want to convert a number from Chinese to Arabic, you can: M-x chinese-number--convert-chinese-to-arabic If you want use this converting in your elisp code, then you can call the following two function: chinese-number--convert-arabic-number-to-chinese and chinese-number--convert-chinese-number-to-arabic