六十七 (liù shí qī) — sixty-seven

Definition

numeral
sixty-seven

Examples

  • 六十七。
    Tā jīn nián liù shí qī suì le.
    He is sixty-seven years old this year.
  • 六十七。
    Zhè běn shū yǒu liù shí qī yè.
    This book has sixty-seven pages.
  • 六十七。
    Wǒ mǎi le liù shí qī gè píng guǒ.
    I bought sixty-seven apples.

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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A drawing of the thing itself, worn down over three thousand years into a few strokes.

The shape of 七 comes from two crossing lines: the top line runs left to right, and the next line goes down and across.

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