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七万 (qī mò) — seventy thousand

Definition

numeral
seventy thousand

Examples

  • 七万。
    Zhè ge chéng shì yǒu qī mò rén kǒu.
    This city has a population of seventy thousand.
  • 七万。
    Tā yì nián zhuàn le qī mò duō kuài qián.
    He earned over seventy thousand yuan in a year.
  • 七万。
    qī mò Shì yí gè hěn dà de shù zì.
    Seventy thousand is a very large number.

Origin

Compound word
构词法gòucífǎ
偏正piānzhèngModifier + head

The first part narrows down the second: it says what kind of thing the head is.

七qīseven
万wànten thousand

七 gives the count and 万 gives the ten-thousand amount.

Characters in this word

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

The shape of 七 comes from two crossing lines: the top line runs left to right, and the next line goes down and across.

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

This origin belongs to the traditional form 萬; 万 is its simplified writing.

For 万, the form 萬 was originally a picture of a scorpion, later borrowed for its sound to write 'ten thousand'; the scorpion picture is unrelated to that number.

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