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二十 (èr shí): meaning and stroke order

二十 (èr shí) means twenty; 20.

二十

Simplified
二十
Traditional
二十 (same form)
Pinyin
èr shí

Stroke order of 二十

二

  • èr two; 2
  • 2 strokes

Stroke by stroke

十

  • shí numeral 10 in the Suzhou numeral system 蘇州碼子|苏州码子[Su1 zhou1 ma3 zi5]
  • shí ten; 10
  • 2 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 二十

  1. èr shí
    • twenty; 20

Radicals of the characters

二
Radical 二 (Kangxi radical 7) · 2 strokes · 一 on top, 一 below
十
Radical 十 (Kangxi radical 24) · 2 strokes · built from 一 and 丨

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

二十 in our stories

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  • 她生日那天，快递送来一个大包裹，里面是一本相册，从她们十岁到二十岁的照片都在里面。

    tā shēngrì nà tiān kuàidì sònglái yí gè dà bāoguǒ lǐmiàn shì yì běn xiàngcè cóng tāmen shí suì dào èrshí suì de zhàopiàn dōu zài lǐmiàn

    On her birthday a big parcel arrived: an album with their photos from age ten to twenty.

    From the story Twelve hours apart HSK 4

  • 这是她等了很久的机会：工资翻一倍，还能带一个二十人的团队。

    zhè shì tā děng le hěn jiǔ de jīhuì gōngzī fān yí bèi hái néng dài yí gè èrshí rén de tuánduì

    It was the chance she had been waiting for: double the salary and a team of twenty.

    From the story No perfect answer HSK 6

  • “跟着气球跑就行，”老鲁笑着对身边的新手们说，“前二十公里，谁也不许超过我。”

    gēn zhe qìqiú pǎo jiù xíng Lǎo Lǔ xiàozhe duì shēnbiān de xīnshǒu men shuō qián èrshí gōnglǐ shéi yě bù xǔ chāoguò wǒ

    "Just follow the balloon," Old Lu said with a smile to the beginners around him. "For the first twenty kilometres nobody is allowed to pass me."

    From the story The four-hour balloon HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 二十

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).