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七十五 (qī shí wǔ) — seventy-five

Definition

numeral
seventy-five

Examples

  • 七十五。
    Wǒ jīn nián qī shí wǔ suì.
    I am seventy-five years old this year.
  • 七十五。
    Zhè běn shū yǒu qī shí wǔ yè.
    This book has seventy-five pages.
  • 七十五。
    qī shí wǔ Jiā èr shí wǔ děng yú yì bǎi.
    Seventy-five plus twenty-five equals one hundred.

Origin

Compound word
构词法gòucífǎ
联合liánhéCoordinate

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

七十seventy
七qīseven十shíten
偏正Modifier + head
五wǔfive

七 is seven, 十 is ten, and 五 is five: 70 plus 5.

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.

Open 七 →

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.

Open 十 →

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.

Open 五 →
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