二十二万 (èr shí èr mò) — 220,000 (the number)

Definition

Numeral meaning 220,000. A fixed numeric term (二十二 + 万 = 2.2 × 10⁵) used in counts of people, money, and quantities.

numeral
220,000 (the number)

Examples

  • 二十二万。
    Zhè ge chéng shì yǒu èr shí èr mò rén kǒu.
    This city has a population of 220,000.
  • 二十二万。
    Tā zhuàn le èr shí èr mò kuài qián.
    He earned 220,000 yuan.
  • 二十二万。
    Gōng sī qù nián shōu rù èr shí èr mò měi yuán.
    The company's revenue last year was 220,000 US dollars.

Origin

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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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.

Open 二 →

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.

Open 万 →

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