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十七 (shí qī) — seventeen

Definition

numeral
seventeen

Examples

  • 十七。
    Wǒ dì di jīn nián shí qī suì.
    My younger brother is seventeen years old this year.
  • 十七。
    Jiào shì lǐ yǒu shí qī gè xué shēng.
    There are seventeen students in the classroom.
  • 十七，。
    Cóng yí dào shí qī, wǒ shǔ wán le.
    I counted from one to seventeen.

Origin

Compound word
构词法gòucífǎ
联合liánhéCoordinate

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

十shíten
七qīseven

“十” means ten and “七” means seven; together they mean seventeen.

Characters in this word

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 shape of 七 comes from two crossing lines: the top line runs left to right, and the next line goes down and across.

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