七十五万 (qī shí wǔ mò) — seven hundred fifty thousand (value, not likely a measure word)

Definition

Numeral meaning 750,000 (七十五 + 万, where 万 = 10,000). Read as 'qīshíwǔ wàn', not by multiplying digits: 七十五 × 万, not 七百 × 五十.

numeral
seven hundred fifty thousand (value, not likely a measure word)

Examples

  • 七十五万。
    Zhè tào fáng zi de jià gé shì qī shí wǔ mò yuán zuǒ yòu.
    The price of this house is around 750,000 yuan.
  • 七十五万。
    Nà ge chéng shì de rén kǒu chāo guò qī shí wǔ mò.
    The population of that city exceeds 750,000.
  • 七十五万。
    Gōng sī qù nián de lì rùn dá dào le qī shí wǔ mò.
    The company's profit last year reached 750,000.

Origin

Characters in this word

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

An older form had a crossed mark between a top bar and a bottom bar. The modern 五 keeps those bars, while the original idea is uncertain.

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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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