十
shí
Pinyin
Definition
十
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- ten
- 10
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
不多，才五百个作业员，十条生产线。
Not many. There’s only five hundred workers and ten production lines.
嗯，二十四小时不停机吗？
Do they work around the clock?
你看，十五号。
Look, number fifteen.
掌柜的生气了，常常骂他。他只是笑嘻嘻地赔小心道千字比十字只多一小撇不是差不多吗？”
This infuriated the bank manager and he would often reprimand him. Mr. Chabuduo's response to these incidents was always to reply with a smirk: "The number for 1,000 “千” differed from the number for 10 “十” by only one simple stroke - isn't that close enough?"
十字常常写成千字，千字常常写成十字。
Often, he writes the character 10 as 1000, and would write the character for 1000 as the character for 10.
现在已经深夜十二点了，他还在工作。
It’s now midnight, yet he’s still at work.
十
ten
八十元
eighty yuan
十八日
eighteenth
二十七日
twenty-seventh