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十六 (shí liù): meaning and stroke order

十六 (shí liù) means sixteen, 16.

十六

Simplified
十六
Traditional
十六 (same form)
Pinyin
shí liù

Stroke order of 十六

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

六

  • liù six; 6
  • lù used in place names
  • 4 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 十六

  1. shí liù
    • sixteen
    • 16

Radicals of the characters

十
Radical 十 (Kangxi radical 24) · 2 strokes · built from 一 and 丨
六
Radical 八 (Kangxi radical 12) · 4 strokes · 亠 on top, 八 below

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.

十六 in our stories

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  • 她在网上下载了一份十六周的训练计划，贴在冰箱上：周二间歇跑，周四节奏跑，周六长距离慢跑，其余时间休息或者拉伸。

    tā zài wǎngshang xiàzài le yí fèn shíliù zhōu de xùnliàn jìhuà tiē zài bīngxiāng shàng zhōu'èr jiànxiēpǎo zhōusì jiézòupǎo zhōuliù chángjùlí mànpǎo qíyú shíjiān xiūxi huòzhě lāshēn

    She downloaded a sixteen-week training plan and stuck it on the fridge: intervals on Tuesdays, tempo runs on Thursdays, long slow runs on Saturdays, and rest or stretching the rest of the time.

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

Stories using 十六

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).