六十一 (liù shí yī) — sixty-one

Definition

numeral
sixty-one

Examples

  • 六十一。
    Wǒ jiā yǒu liù shí yī běn shū.
    My family has sixty-one books.
  • 六十一。
    Tā jīn nián liù shí yī suì.
    He is sixty-one years old this year.
  • 。
    Zhè shì dì liù shí yī yè.
    This is page sixty-one.

Origin

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

一 is drawn as one horizontal stroke, marking the number one.

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