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十万 (shí wàn) — one hundred thousand

Definition

numeral
one hundred thousand

Examples

  • 十万。
    Zhè ge chéng shì dà yuē yǒu shí wàn rén.
    This city has about one hundred thousand people.
  • 十万。
    Tā juān le shí wàn kuài qián gěi xué xiào.
    He donated one hundred thousand yuan to the school.
  • 十万。
    Yí liàng gāo dàng chē de jià gé chāo guò shí wàn yuán.
    The price of a high-end car exceeds one hundred thousand yuan.

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.

十shíten
万wànten thousand

十 means ten and 万 means ten thousand, so the number is ten ten-thousands.

Characters in this word

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.

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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