二十六万 (èr shí liù wàn) — 260,000 (two hundred and sixty thousand)

Definition

numeral
260,000 (two hundred and sixty thousand)

Examples

  • 二十六万。
    Zhè ge chéng shì yǒu èr shí liù wàn rén kǒu.
    This city has a population of 260,000.
  • 二十六万。
    Fáng jià yǐ jīng zhǎng dào èr shí liù wàn le.
    House prices have already risen to 260,000.
  • 二十六万。
    Tā zhōng le èr shí liù wàn dà jiǎng.
    He won a 260,000 grand prize.

Origin

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.

The shape of 六 may come from a simple drawing of a shed, or from an ancient counting mark.

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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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