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一百五十 (yì bǎi wǔ shí) — one hundred fifty (150)

Definition

Cardinal number 150, read as 'yī bǎi wǔ shí' (one hundred fifty). Note the pronunciation: 一百 is 'yī bǎi', not 'yì bǎi', before a tens digit.

numeral
one hundred fifty (150)

Examples

  • 一百五十。
    Zhè ge shāng diàn yǒu yì bǎi wǔ shí gè píng guǒ.
    This store has one hundred fifty apples.
  • 一百五十。
    Tā jīn nián yǐ jīng yì bǎi wǔ shí suì le.
    He is already one hundred fifty years old this year.
  • 一百五十。
    Zhè běn shū gòng yǒu yì bǎi wǔ shí yè.
    This book has one hundred fifty pages in total.

Origin

Compound word
构词法gòucífǎ
联合liánhéCoordinate

Two parts of equal weight, alike or opposite in meaning, standing side by side.

一百one hundred
一yīone百bǎihundred
偏正Modifier + head
五十fifty
五wǔfive十shíten
偏正Modifier + head

一百 gives 100 and 五十 gives 50, together making 150.

Characters in this word

An abstract idea shown by a mark or a diagram rather than by a picture of an object.

一 is drawn as one horizontal stroke, marking the number one.

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Most characters — around four in five — are built this way: one part hints at the meaning, the other at the pronunciation.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
一一yī
Sound part声符shēngfú
白
白bái百bǎi
Same sound today

百 combines 一, which carries the number meaning, with 白, which provides the sound.

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A drawing of the thing itself, worn down over three thousand years into a few strokes.

An older form had a crossed mark between a top bar and a bottom bar. The modern 五 keeps those bars, while the original idea is uncertain.

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An abstract idea shown by a mark or a diagram rather than by a picture of an object.

The early shape 十 was mostly a single vertical stroke, sometimes with a dot, and later gained a horizontal stroke to form a cross. For the number ten, it marked the next digit above one.

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