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十八 (shí bā) — eighteen

Definition

numeral
eighteen

Examples

  • 十八。
    Wǒ jīn nián shí bā suì.
    I am eighteen years old.
  • 十八。
    Yí gòng yǒu shí bā gè xué shēng cān jiā le kǎo shì.
    A total of eighteen students took the exam.
  • 十八。
    Zhè běn shū de dìng jià shì shí bā yuán.
    The price of this book is eighteen yuan.

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
八bāeight

'十' (ten) and '八' (eight) combine to form the number eighteen.

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.

八 shows two bent lines, indicating the original meaning 'to divide'; it was later used for 'eight' because the words sounded alike.

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