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shí

HSK 1 · word 329 of 3,000

Meaning

Example sentence

我十八岁。

wǒ shí bā suì

I am eighteen years old.

The character 十

is ten — a full hand, then the other. Everything above it is built by saying it: 十二 is ten-two, 二十 two-tens, 二十二 two-tens-two. 十分 is ten parts out of ten, hence entirely.

Words containing 十

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