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九万 (jiǔ mò) — ninety thousand; 90,000

Definition

numeral
ninety thousand90,000

Examples

  • 九万。
    Zhè tào fáng zi de jià gé shì jiǔ mò yuán.
    The price of this house is ninety thousand yuan.
  • 九万。
    Zhè ge chéng shì de rén kǒu chāo guò jiǔ mò.
    The population of this city exceeds ninety thousand.
  • 九万。
    Tā měi nián shōu rù dà yuē jiǔ mò rén mín bì.
    His annual income is about ninety thousand renminbi.

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.

九jiǔnine
万wànten thousand

九 means nine and 万 ten thousand; together they form nine units of ten thousand.

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

The shape comes from a stylized hand bent at the wrist, with the lower-right hook showing the bend. Later, it was taken to show a tightened fist bumping up to ten, giving the number nine.

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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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