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十
Character Breakdown (Single character)
Compound Words (20)
七十
qīshí
seventy
三十
sānshí
thirty
九十
jiǔshí
ninety
二十
èrshí
twenty
五十
wǔshí
fifty
八十
bāshí
eighty
六十
liùshí
sixty
十一
shíyī
eleven
十七
shíqī
seventeen
十三
shísān
thirteen
十九
shíjiǔ
nineteen
十二
shíèr
twelve
十五
shíwǔ
fifteen
十位
shíwèi
the tens place (or column) in the decimal system
十倍
shíbèi
tenfold
十亿
shíyì
one billion
十克
shíkè
decagram
十全
shíquán
perfect
十八
shíbā
eighteen
十六
shíliù
sixteen
Example Sentences (7)
十年过去了，现在他已经是校长了，因为太忙，每天早上我起床后都看不到他，晚上很晚他才回到家。
Shí nián guòqù le, xiànzài tā yǐjīng shì xiàozhǎng le, yīnwèi tài máng, měitiān zǎoshang wǒ qǐchuáng hòu dōu kàn bú dào tā, wǎnshang hěn wǎn tā cái huídào jiā.
Ten years have passed. Now he is already the principal. Because he's so busy, every morning after I get up I can't see him, and he doesn't get home until very late at night.
Text 4
我睡得也早，我每天晚上十点就睡觉。早睡早起身体好。
wǒ shuì de yě zǎo, wǒ měi tiān wǎnshang shí diǎn jiù shuì jiào. zǎo shuì zǎo qǐ shēntǐ hǎo.
I also go to bed early. I go to bed at ten every night. Going to bed early and getting up early is good for your health.
Text 1
是吗？毕业都快十年了，真想大家啊！
Shì ma? Bìyè dōu kuài shí nián le, zhēn xiǎng dàjiā a!
Really? It's been almost ten years since graduation. I really miss everyone!
Text 2
我十一岁的时候开始踢足球，已经踢了十年了。
Wǒ shíyī suì de shíhòu kāishǐ tī zúqiú, yǐjīng tī le shí nián le.
I started playing soccer when I was eleven years old, and I have been playing for ten years.
Text 3
而且他的脾气也不错，结婚快十年了，我们俩几乎没因为什么事红过脸，很多人都特别羡慕我们。
érqiě tā de píqi yě búcuò, jiéhūn kuài shí nián le, wǒmen liǎ jīhū méi yīnwèi shénme shì hóng guò liǎn, hěn duō rén dōu tèbié xiànmù wǒmen.
And he has a good temper, too; we’ve been married almost ten years, the two of us have hardly ever argued about anything, and many people really envy us.
Text 5
Metadata
- Category
- Chinese
- HSK Character Level
- 1
- Character Frequency Rank
- 111
- Word Frequency Rank
- 1,072 of 84,292
- Radical Number
- 24