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两万 (liǎng mò) — twenty thousand

Definition

numeral
twenty thousand

Examples

  • 两万。
    Zhè ge chéng shì yǒu liǎng mò rén kǒu.
    This city has twenty thousand people.
  • 两万。
    Zhè tái chē huā le dà yuē liǎng mò kuài qián.
    This car cost about twenty thousand yuan.
  • 两万。
    Tā yì nián zhuàn le liǎng mò duō kuài.
    He earned more than twenty thousand yuan in a year.

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.

两liǎngtwo
万wànten thousand

两 'two' plus 万 'ten thousand' gives twenty thousand.

Characters in this word

Two or more meaningful parts placed together so that their meanings combine into a new one.

This origin belongs to the traditional form 兩; 两 is its simplified writing.

The traditional form 兩 is described as combining 一 and 㒳. The simplified 两 is a later abbreviation.

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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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