三十日 (sān shí rì) — the 30th day of the month

Definition

noun
the 30th day of the month
Easily confused

Examples

  • 三十日。
    Wǒ de shēng rì shì sān yuè sān shí rì.
    My birthday is March 30th.
  • 三十日。
    Huì yì dìng zài shí yī yuè sān shí rì jǔ xíng.
    The meeting is scheduled for November 30th.
  • 三十日。
    sān shí rì De huǒ chē piào yǐ jīng mài wán le.
    The train tickets for the 30th are already sold out.

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.

三十thirty
三sānthree十shíten
偏正Modifier + head
日rìday

三十 (thirty) specifies the day 日, giving the 30th day of a month.

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.

日 originally drew the sun. A mark was added inside to tell it apart from similar square shapes.

Open 日 →

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