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十八 (shí bā): meaning and stroke order

十八 (shí bā) means eighteen, 18.

十八

Simplified
十八
Traditional
十八 (same form)
Pinyin
shí bā

Stroke order of 十八

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

八

  • bā eight
  • 2 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 十八

  1. shí bā
    • eighteen
    • 18

Radicals of the characters

十
Radical 十 (Kangxi radical 24) · 2 strokes · built from 一 and 丨
八
Radical 八 (Kangxi radical 12) · 2 strokes · 丿 on the left, 乁 on the right

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.

十八 in our stories

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  • 他回去仔细看了商品介绍，才发现上面写着：“玩具沙发，长十八厘米。”

    tā huíqu zǐxì kàn le shāngpǐn jièshào cái fāxiàn shàngmiàn xiě zhe wánjù shāfā cháng shíbā límǐ

    He went back and read the product description carefully, and only then saw that it said, "Toy sofa, 18 cm long."

    From the story The ninety-nine-yuan sofa HSK 4

  • 三年后，祝英台接到家里的信，只好回家。梁山伯送了她十八里路。

    sān nián hòu Zhù Yīngtái jiēdào jiāli de xìn zhǐhǎo huíjiā Liáng Shānbó sòng le tā shíbā lǐ lù

    After three years Zhu Yingtai received a letter from home and had no choice but to return. Liang Shanbo walked eighteen li with her to see her off.

    From the story The Butterfly Lovers HSK 7–9 · Level 8

Stories using 十八

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).