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二十 (èr shí) — twenty

Definition

numeral
twenty

Examples

  • 二十。
    Tā jīn nián èr shí suì le.
    He is twenty years old this year.
  • 二十。
    Jiào shì lǐ yǒu èr shí gè xué shēng.
    There are twenty students in the classroom.
  • 二十。
    Zhè jiàn yī fu huā le èr shí kuài qián.
    This piece of clothing cost twenty yuan.

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.

二èrtwo
十shíten

二 means two and 十 means ten, so two tens make twenty.

Characters in this word

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

二 is drawn as two parallel strokes, where the number of strokes shows the amount.

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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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