六十三 (liù shí sān) — sixty-three

Definition

numeral
sixty-three
Easily confused

Examples

  • 六十三。
    Wǒ yé ye jīn nián liù shí sān suì le.
    My grandpa is sixty-three years old this year.
  • 六十三。
    Zhè běn xiǎo shuō yí gòng yǒu liù shí sān yè.
    This novel has a total of sixty-three pages.
  • 六十三。
    Tā mǎi le liù shí sān běn shū.
    He bought sixty-three books.

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.

三 is drawn as three parallel strokes, like 一 with one stroke and 二 with two.

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