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十四 (shí sì) — fourteen

Definition

numeral
fourteen

Examples

  • 十四。
    Wǒ men bān yǒu shí sì gè xué shēng.
    There are fourteen students in our class.
  • 十四。
    Tā jīn nián shí sì suì le.
    He is fourteen years old this year.
  • 十四。
    Cóng dì yī yè fān dào shí sì yè.
    Turn from page one to page fourteen.

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
四sìfour

十 gives ten and 四 gives four, combined to express fourteen.

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.

The form 四 was drawn as a nose breathing out. It later came to be used for the word four.

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