二十四万 (èr shí sì mò) — 240,000 (a number, often used in financial or statistical contexts)

Definition

The number 240,000, read as 'èr shí sì wàn' — four ten-thousands stacked together. 万 is the 10,000 unit, so 24 × 10,000 = 240,000.

numeral
240,000 (a number, often used in financial or statistical contexts)

Examples

  • 二十四万。
    Tā de nián xīn shì èr shí sì mò yuán.
    His annual salary is 240,000 yuan.
  • 二十四万。
    Zhè ge chéng shì yǒu èr shí sì mò rén kǒu.
    This city has a population of 240,000.
  • 二十四万。
    Zhěng gè xiàng mù xū yào èr shí sì mò yuán de tóu zī.
    The whole project requires an investment of 240,000 yuan.

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.

The form 四 was drawn as a nose breathing out. It later came to be used for the word four.

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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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