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十二shí èr
twelve
Definitions
| Chinese > English | |
| 十二 | shí'èr |
| 1. num. twelve; 12 | |
| 十二 宵夜 - twelve nights | |
| English > Chinese | |
| twelve | |
| 1. 十二 | |
| Components | |
| 十 | shí |
| 1. ten | |
| 2. (figurative) topmost; utmost | |
| 十分 - very | |
| 十全十美 - perfect | |
| 二 | èr |
| 1. two | |
| 二 號 線 (èr hào xiàn) - line no. 2 | |
| 2. second | |
| 二哥 - second elder brother | |
| 二意 - tr=èryì - | |
| 二心 - tr=èrxīn - | |
| 3. (handwritten, dated, now, informal) (An iteration mark denoting the repetition of the previous hanzi; often written at a smaller size when used for this purpose.) | |
| Synonyms: 々, 〻 | |
| 4. Short for "twenty, two hundred or two thousand" after hundreds, thousands and ten thousands. | |
| ※ (Such a definition of a number results from a number's being used without a unit after a quantity with both a value (exists even if hidden) and a unit to indicate the quantity with the value | |
| 百 二 - one hundred twenty | |
| 百 二 (pah jī) - one hundred twenty, MN | |
| 買 電腦 花 了 一 千 二。 (Mǎi diànnǎo huā le yī qiān èr.) - Buying the computer cost me a thousand and two hundred bucks. | |
| 5. Short for "twenty cents". | |
| 黃瓜 一 塊 二 一 斤。 (Huángguā yī kuài èr yī jīn.) - The cucumbers are one dollar twenty per half kilogram. | |
| 6. (dialectal Mandarin) stupid, dumb; silly, thick, lacking mental agility (often in a cute way) | |
| 你 這 人 怎麼 這麼 二！ (Nǐ zhè rén zěnme zhème èr!) - Why are you so incorrigibly stupid! | |
| 7. (HKC, school slang) to obtain a level two in a subject in DSE (exam) (usually implies failing the subject) | |
| 我 中文man4-2 二 咗，入 唔到 Uju1。 - I got a level two in Chinese, can't get into university. | |
| 8. (classical) Alternative form of 貳; usually limited to the simplified script | |
| 不二过 - tr=bù'èrguò | |
| 9. usage. See 兩 - Usage notes. | |
Pronunciation
shí èr
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