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十五 (shí wǔ) — fifteen

Definition

numeral
fifteen

Examples

  • 十五。
    Tā jīn nián shí wǔ suì.
    He is fifteen years old this year.
  • 十五。
    Wǒ men bān yǒu shí wǔ gè xué shēng.
    Our class has fifteen students.
  • 。
    Xià wǔ sān diǎn shí wǔ fēn wǒ men kāi huì.
    We have a meeting at 3:15 in the afternoon.

Origin

Compound word
构词法gòucífǎ
联合liánhéCoordinate

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

十shíten
五wǔfive

十 gives ten and 五 gives five; together they form the number fifteen.

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.

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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