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五十四 (wǔ shí sì) — fifty-four

Definition

numeral
fifty-four

Examples

  • 五十四。
    Tā jīn nián wǔ shí sì suì le.
    He is fifty-four years old this year.
  • 五十四。
    Zhè běn shū yǒu wǔ shí sì yè.
    This book has fifty-four pages.
  • 五十四。
    Wǒ men bān yí gòng yǒu wǔ shí sì gè xué shēng.
    Our class has fifty-four students in total.

Origin

Compound word
构词法gòucífǎ
联合liánhéCoordinate

Two parts of equal weight, alike or opposite in meaning, standing side by side.

五十fifty
五wǔfive十shíten
偏正Modifier + head
四sìfour

五十 and 四 combine to express fifty plus four.

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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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.

Open 十 →

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.

Open 四 →
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