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三十 (sān shí): meaning and stroke order

三十 (sān shí) means thirty, 30.

三十

Simplified
三十
Traditional
三十 (same form)
Pinyin
sān shí

Stroke order of 三十

三

  • Sān surname San
  • sān three; 3
  • 3 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 三十

  1. sān shí
    • thirty
    • 30

Radicals of the characters

三
Radical 一 (Kangxi radical 1) · 3 strokes
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.

三十 in our stories

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  • 为了这次会议,他准备了整整一个星期,做了三十多页的材料。

    wèile zhè cì huìyì tā zhǔnbèi le zhěngzhěng yí gè xīngqī zuò le sānshí duō yè de cáiliào

    He had spent a whole week preparing for this meeting and made over thirty pages of material.

    From the story Three circles HSK 4

  • 后来,一位懂茶的朋友告诉他,这块三十多年的老茶饼,能卖好几万块。

    hòulái yí wèi dǒng chá de péngyou gàosu tā zhè kuài sānshí duō nián de lǎo chábǐng néng mài hǎojǐ wàn kuài

    Later a friend who knew about tea told him that this thirty-year-old tea cake could sell for tens of thousands of yuan.

    From the story Great-uncle's wooden box HSK 6

  • 卖了三十年豆浆的冯阿姨站了起来,声音有些发抖。

    mài le sānshí nián dòujiāng de Féng āyí zhàn le qǐlai shēngyīn yǒuxiē fādǒu

    Auntie Feng, who had sold soy milk for thirty years, stood up, her voice trembling a little.

    From the story The market hearing HSK 7–9 · Level 8

Stories using 三十

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).