三十四 (sān shí sì) — thirty-four

Definition

numeral
thirty-four
Easily confused

Examples

  • 三十四。
    Wǒ men bān yǒu sān shí sì gè xué shēng.
    There are thirty-four students in our class.
  • 三十四。
    Tā jīn nián sān shí sì suì.
    He is thirty-four years old this year.
  • 。
    Zhè běn shū cóng dì sān shí sì yè kāi shǐ.
    This book starts from page thirty-four.

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.

Open 三 →

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.

Open 十 →

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

The form 四 was drawn as a nose breathing out. It later came to be used for the word four.

Open 四 →

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