六十
liù shí
Pinyin
Definition
六十
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- sixty
- 60
Character Decomposition
Idioms (20)
一五一十
- 1 lit. count by fives and tens (idiom); to narrate systematically and in full detail
一传十,十传百
- 1 news pass quickly from mouth to mouth (idiom)
- 2 an infectious disease spreads quickly (old meaning)
一年被蛇咬十年怕井绳
- 1 bitten by a snake in one year, fears the well rope for ten years (idiom); once bitten twice shy
一暴十寒
- 1 one day's sun, ten days' frost (idiom, from Mencius); fig. to work for a bit then skimp
- 2 sporadic effort
- 3 short attention span
一曝十寒
- 1 one day's sun, ten days' frost (idiom, from Mencius); fig. to work for a bit then skimp
- 2 sporadic effort
- 3 lack of sticking power
- 4 short attention span
Sample Sentences
不管你几岁,你可能六十岁,九十岁,你都在学习新的东西。
No matter how old you are, you can be sixty or ninety years old, but you'll still be learning something new.
六十八
sixty-eight
六十平方米、六十平方公尺
six meters squared
这样不行,我们每个人有低消六十块。
That's not possible, there is a minimum order requirement of RMB60 per head.
这样一个人也不到六十块呀,而且你们这价钱也订得太荒谬了吧?
But that way we're still less than RMB60 per person and don't you think that your pricing is a little absurd?
你这人简直莫名其妙,你都可以少算一个人六十块的低消了,差个两块钱倒要打电话问老板?根本黑店,不喝了,我们走,一会儿就上网替你这黑店“宣传宣传,哼!
You're simply too much, you can count two people as one for the minimum order requirement, but you have to call your boss over RMB2? This is daylight robbery, I'm not drinking your coffee, we're going, I'll make sure and get the word out about the scam you have running here online, hmph!
你看看人家,人家每次考试都能拿一百分,你怎么只能拿六十分?
Look at him. He gets 100 percent on every test. How can you only get 60 percent?
搞定了!奥迪商务车!一小时六十块。明天中午去签合同取车。我们从一点到五点租四个小时够吗?
Done! A business class Audi! One hour for 60 kuai. Tomorrow afternoon we'll go to sign the contract and get the car. If we rent for four hours from 1 to 5, is that enough?
三百六十一。
361.
哦,不对,不对。是六十公斤,一百二十斤。
Oh, no. That's not right. I'm 60 kilograms and 120 jin.