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二十万 (èr shí wàn) — 200 thousand

Definition

numeral
200 thousand

Examples

  • 二十万。
    Tā mǎi fáng zi huā le èr shí wàn yuán.
    He spent 200 thousand yuan to buy a house.
  • 二十万。
    Zhè ge chéng shì yǒu èr shí wàn rén kǒu.
    This city has a population of 200 thousand.
  • 二十万。
    Gōng sī de nián shōu rù chāo guò èr shí wàn.
    The company's annual revenue exceeds 200 thousand.

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.

二十twenty
二èrtwo十shíten
偏正Modifier + head
万wànten thousand

'二', '十', and '万' mean two, ten, and ten thousand, giving twenty ten-thousands.

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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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.

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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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