三十五万 (sān shí wǔ mò) — 350,000, three hundred and fifty thousand

Definition

A cardinal number meaning 350,000, read as 'sānshíwǔ wàn' (thirty-five ten-thousands). Use 万 (ten thousand) as the base unit rather than 千 (thousand) when expressing numbers of this size in Chinese.

numeral
350,000three hundred and fifty thousand
Easily confused

Examples

  • 三十五万。
    Zhè ge chéng shì yǒu sān shí wǔ mò rén kǒu.
    This city has a population of 350,000.
  • 三十五万。
    Tā qù nián zhuàn le sān shí wǔ mò kuài qián.
    He earned 350,000 yuan last year.
  • 三十五万。
    Zhè bù diàn yǐng de yù suàn dà yuē shì sān shí wǔ mò.
    The budget for this movie is about 350,000.

Origin

Characters in this word

An abstract idea shown by a mark or a diagram rather than by a picture of an object.

三 is drawn as three parallel strokes, like 一 with one stroke and 二 with two.

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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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