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四万 (sì mò) — forty thousand

Definition

numeral
forty thousand

Examples

  • 四万。
    Zhè ge gōng sī nián shōu rù chāo guò sì mò.
    This company's annual revenue exceeds forty thousand.
  • 四万。
    Tā wèi xiàng mù chóu jí le sì mò yuán.
    She raised forty thousand yuan for the project.
  • 四万。
    Zhǎn lǎn xī yǐn le sì mò duō míng yóu kè.
    The exhibition attracted over forty thousand visitors.

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.

四sìfour
万wànten thousand

四 gives four and 万 gives ten thousand, making four ten-thousands.

Characters in this word

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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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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