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七百万 (qī bǎi wàn) — seven million

Definition

numeral
seven million

Examples

  • 七百万。
    Zhè ge chéng shì yǒu qī bǎi wàn rén kǒu.
    This city has a population of seven million.
  • 七百万。
    Tā zhuàn le qī bǎi wàn kuài qián.
    He earned seven million dollars.
  • 七百万。
    Zhè tào fáng zi zhí qī bǎi wàn yuán.
    This house is worth seven million yuan.

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
百万
百bǎihundred万wànten thousand
偏正Modifier + head

七 gives seven, and 百万 gives a million, or hundred ten-thousands.

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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Most characters — around four in five — are built this way: one part hints at the meaning, the other at the pronunciation.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
一一yī
Sound part声符shēngfú
白
白bái百bǎi
Same sound today

百 combines 一, which carries the number meaning, with 白, which provides the sound.

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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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