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六万 (liù wàn) — sixty thousand; 60,000

Definition

numeral
sixty thousand60,000

Examples

  • 六万。
    Zhè ge tú shū guǎn yǒu liù wàn duō běn shū.
    This library has over sixty thousand books.
  • 六万。
    liù wàn Kuài qián bú shì xiǎo shù mù.
    Sixty thousand yuan is not a small amount.
  • 六万。
    Tā měi tiān pǎo liù wàn bù.
    He runs sixty thousand steps every day.

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.

六liùsix
万wànten thousand

六 gives the number six, and 万 gives the unit ten thousand.

Characters in this word

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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