六十五 (liù shí wǔ) — sixty-five

Definition

numeral
sixty-five

Examples

  • 六十五。
    Wǒ yé ye jīn nián liù shí wǔ suì le.
    My grandfather is sixty-five years old this year.
  • 六十五。
    Zhè běn shū yǒu liù shí wǔ yè.
    This book has sixty-five pages.
  • 六十五。
    Wǒ men bān yǒu liù shí wǔ gè xué shēng.
    Our class has sixty-five students.

Origin

Compound word
构词法gòucífǎ
联合liánhéSide by side

Two parts of equal weight, alike or opposite in meaning, standing side by side.

六十sixty
六liùsix十shíten
偏正Modifier + head
五wǔfive

'六十' and '五' give sixty plus five, i.e. 65.

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.

An older form had a crossed mark between a top bar and a bottom bar. The modern 五 keeps those bars, while the original idea is uncertain.

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