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七十 (qī shí) — seventy; 70

Definition

numeral
seventy70

Examples

  • 七十。
    Wǒ nǎi nai jīn nián qī shí suì le.
    My grandmother is seventy years old this year.
  • 七十。
    Zhè běn shū huā le qī shí kuài qián.
    This book cost seventy yuan.
  • 七十。
    Jiào shì lǐ yǒu qī shí gè xué shēng.
    There are seventy students in the classroom.

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.

七qīseven
十shíten

七 seven and 十 ten combine as seven tens to mean seventy.

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A drawing of the thing itself, worn down over three thousand years into a few strokes.

The shape of 七 comes from two crossing lines: the top line runs left to right, and the next line goes down and across.

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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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