三十五 (sān shí wǔ) — thirty-five

Definition

numeral
thirty-five
Easily confused

Examples

  • 三十五。
    Tā jīn nián sān shí wǔ suì le.
    He is thirty-five years old this year.
  • 三十五。
    Zhè ge jiào shì yǒu sān shí wǔ gè xué shēng.
    This classroom has thirty-five students.
  • 三十五。
    Wǒ men zuò sān shí wǔ lù gōng jiāo chē qù.
    We take bus number thirty-five to go there.

Origin

Compound word
构词法gòucífǎ
联合liánhéSide by side

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

三十thirty
三sānthree十shíten
偏正Modifier + head
五wǔfive

三十 is three tens and 五 adds five, making thirty-five.

Characters in this word

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

三 is drawn as three parallel strokes, like 一 with one stroke and 二 with two.

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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.

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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