旬 (xún) — (classifier) ten-day period (one of three divisions of a month); (classifier) ten years (in age expressions)
Definition
A written/classical measure word for a ten-day period of a month (上旬/中旬/下旬) or ten years of age (六旬 = sixty years old). You'll only see it after numbers, not used in everyday speech.
classifier
ten-day period (one of three divisions of a month)ten years (in age expressions)
Examples
- 。Zhè ge yuè de xià xún wǒ yào qù lǚ xíng.I'm going to travel in the last ten days of this month.
- 旬，。Tā jīn nián yǐ jīng qī xún le, shēn tǐ hái hěn jiàn kāng.He is already seventy years old this year, and still very healthy.
- 。Wǒ men gōng sī měi yuè de shàng xún kāi yí cì huì.Our company holds a meeting in the first ten days of each month.
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