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五万 (wǔ wàn) — fifty thousand

Definition

numeral
fifty thousand

Examples

  • 五万。
    Zhè liàng chē huā le wǔ wàn kuài qián.
    This car cost fifty thousand yuan.
  • 五万。
    Tā měi nián shōu rù chāo guò wǔ wàn yuán.
    His annual income exceeds fifty thousand yuan.
  • 五万。
    Zhè ge chéng shì yǒu wǔ wàn rén kǒu.
    This city has a population of fifty thousand.

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.

五wǔfive
万wànten thousand

Five ten-thousands make fifty thousand.

Characters in this word

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

An older form had a crossed mark between a top bar and a bottom bar. The modern 五 keeps those bars, while the original idea is uncertain.

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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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