九万五千 (jiǔ wàn wǔ qiān) — ninety-five thousand (95,000)

Definition

A specific large number: ninety-five thousand (95,000). Used for populations, prices, or other countable large quantities.

numeral
ninety-five thousand (95,000)

Examples

  • 九万五千。
    Zhè ge chéng shì yǒu jiǔ wàn wǔ qiān rén kǒu.
    This city has a population of 95,000.
  • 九万五千。
    Tā huā le jiǔ wàn wǔ qiān kuài qián mǎi zhè liàng chē.
    He spent 95,000 yuan to buy this car.
  • 九万五千。
    Jīn nián gōng sī shōu rù dá dào jiǔ wàn wǔ qiān yuán.
    This year the company's revenue reached 95,000 yuan.

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.

九万90,000
九jiǔnine万wànten thousand
偏正Modifier + head
五千5,000
五wǔfive千qiānthousand
偏正Modifier + head

'九万' gives 90,000 and '五千' gives 5,000; together they add to 95,000.

Characters in this word

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

The shape comes from a stylized hand bent at the wrist, with the lower-right hook showing the bend. Later, it was taken to show a tightened fist bumping up to ten, giving the number nine.

Open 九 →

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.

Open 万 →

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 →

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yīone, signifying a number
Sound part声符shēngfú
人
人rén千qiān
The sound has drifted apartThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

千 pairs 人, whose sound was similar, with 一, a number stroke; the extra line was explained as extension, and a thousand is a number reached by extending counting.

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