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八十六bā shí liù
eighty-six
Definitions
| Chinese > English | |
| 八十六 | bāshíliù |
| 1. num. eighty-six; 86 | |
| Components | |
| 八十 | bāshí |
| 1. num. eighty | |
| 十六 | shíliù |
| 1. num. sixteen; 16 | |
| 八 | bā |
| 1. eight | |
| 2. many; numerous | |
| 3. (printing) pearl (the smallest size of usual type, standardized as 5 point) | |
| 4. Short for 八卦 | |
| 5. to gossip (about); to stick one's nose in | |
| 6. (Cantonese) nosey; meddling | |
| 7. 八婆 - nosey parker; meddling woman | |
| Ba | |
| 8. Variant of 捌 | |
| 捌 | bā |
| 1. (financial) Alternative form of 八 (eight) | |
| 2. Alternative form of 朳 (toothless rake) | |
| 3. Alternative form of 扒 (to break open, split open) | |
| 4. to break | |
| 5. sound of breaking | |
| 6. (Min) to know; to recognise; to be familiar with | |
| 捌字 (báik-cê, MD) - to know how to read | |
| ? 捌 字 (mâ̤-báik-cê, MD, audio=Cdo-fzho,_儥仈字.ogg) - do not know how to read | |
| 7. (Min) to know (somebody) | |
| 伓捌 (n̂g-báik, MD) - to not know (someone) | |
| 8. (Hainanese) to know how to (do something) | |
| 9. (Min Dong, Hokkien) already; previously | |
| 捌曾 (báik-cèng, MD) - a term denoting past tense | |
| 捌bat 做 %過kòe - to have done something already, MN | |
| 10. (attn, zh, check labels) | |
| 11. Variant of 㧙 | |
| 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). | |
Pronunciation
bā shí liù
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