二十八万 (èr shí bā wàn) — 280,000 (twenty-eight ten-thousands)

Definition

numeral
280,000 (twenty-eight ten-thousands)

Examples

  • 二十八万。
    Zhè ge chéng shì yǒu èr shí bā wàn rén kǒu.
    This city has 280,000 people.
  • 二十八万。
    Tā huā le èr shí bā wàn yuán mǎi nà liàng chē.
    He spent 280,000 yuan to buy that car.
  • 二十八万。
    Wǒ men gōng sī nián shōu rù dà yuē èr shí bā wàn měi yuán.
    Our company's annual revenue is about 280,000 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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A drawing of the thing itself, worn down over three thousand years into a few strokes.

八 shows two bent lines, indicating the original meaning 'to divide'; it was later used for 'eight' because the words sounded alike.

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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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