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四十
sìshí
1. forty
2. 40
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Character Breakdown

四
sì
four
HSK 1 5 丶
十
shí
ten, tenth; complete; perfect
HSK 1 2 丶

Compound Words (1)

四十二章经
sìshíèrzhāngjīng
The Sutra in Forty-two Chapters Spoken by the Buddha, the first Chinese Buddhist text, translated in 67 by Kasyapa-Matanga [[迦葉摩騰]] and Gobharana [[竺法蘭]] (Dharmaraksha)

Example Sentences (2)

你妹妹怎么还没来？都八点四十了！
Nǐ mèimei zěnme hái méi lái? Dōu bā diǎn sì shí le!
Why hasn't your younger sister come yet? It's already 8:40!
Text 3
早上八点四十。
Zǎoshang bā diǎn sìshí.
Eight forty in the morning.
Text 1

Metadata

Category
Chinese
Word Frequency Rank
4,744 of 84,292