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六十 (liù shí) — sixty

Definition

numeral
sixty

Examples

  • 六十。
    Wǒ nǎi nai jīn nián liù shí suì le.
    My grandmother is sixty years old this year.
  • 六十。
    Zhè ge bān yǒu liù shí gè xué shēng.
    There are sixty students in this class.
  • 六十。
    Tā huā le liù shí kuài qián mǎi zhè běn shū.
    He spent sixty yuan to buy this book.

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.

六liùsix
十shíten

六 gives six and 十 gives ten, so the number is sixty.

Characters in this word

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

The shape of 六 may come from a simple drawing of a shed, or from an ancient counting mark.

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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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