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二万 (èr mò) — twenty thousand

Definition

numeral
twenty thousand

Examples

  • 二万。
    Zhè ge chéng shì yǒu èr mò rén.
    This city has twenty thousand people.
  • 二万。
    Tā qù nián zhuàn le èr mò yuán.
    He earned twenty thousand yuan last year.
  • 二万。
    Wǒ men yí gòng xū yào èr mò zhāng zhǐ.
    We need a total of twenty thousand sheets of paper.

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.

二èrtwo
万wànten thousand

二 (two) combines with 万 (ten thousand) to mean twenty thousand.

Characters in this word

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

二 is drawn as two parallel strokes, where the number of strokes shows the amount.

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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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