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This paper discusses the changes in particles over the 18 years of revision from 1998 dictionariy to 2016 dictionary. First, the differences between the two dictionaries are well representative of the historical background from the late 1990s to the early 2010s. 　We have examined changes in Chinese and Japanese numeral readings. The overall Japanese-numeral readings may be declining. However, there are some patterns, such as cases where the Chinese numeral reading is replaced by the Japanese numeral reading or remains as an acceptable word. Therefore, it cannot be said that sum-number readings are declining. 　This is confirmed by the fact that the preceding numerals "1 and 2" are both read as "one and two" in the list of particles that appear to have been converted from nouns such as "cup," "set," "team," and "pack" in the 2016 dictionary. This seems to suggest that there is a semantic distinction between the reading of "1, 2" as "ichi, ni" and that of "hito, futa".