Chinese Word of the Day

三十六
sān shí liù

thirty-six

Definitions

Chinese > English
三十六	sānshíliù
1. num. thirty-six; 36
Components
三十	sānshí
1. num. thirty; 30
我昨天收到了三十多條垃圾短信。 - I received over 30 spam text messages yesterday.
十六	shíliù
1. num. sixteen; 16
三	sān
1. three
2. (Mainland, slang) the other woman; the other man
3. repeatedly; thrice
三思 - to think carefully
十	shí
1. ten
2. (figurative) topmost; utmost
十分 - very
十全十美 - perfect
六	liù, lù
1. six
六城 - Six Cities (a literal translation of Altishahr, an ancient name for the region Xinjiang/East Turkestan)
2. (printing) small text; The size of type between little 6, standardized as 7½ point.
3. (dialectal) proficient
4. (neologism, Internet slang) awesome; excellent; remarkable
5. . (pronounced Lù)
6. name of an ancient state (pronounced Lù), also found in placenames (e.g., tr=Lù'ān Lu'an, Anhui, China)
7. (music) Kunqu gongche notation for the note sol (5).
8. (music) Cantonese opera gongche notation for the note sol (5).
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