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九十

jiǔ shí

2-character word

What 九十 means

1. ninety

The characters in 九十

• 九jiǔnine; 9
• 十shíten; 10

Example sentences

• 直角是九十度。
  A right angle has ninety degrees.
• 我祖父九十多岁了。
  My grandfather is in his nineties.
• 他英文得到了九十分。
  He got 90% in English.
• 我的祖父活到九十岁。
  My grandfather lived to be 90 years old.
• 中国有八九十种语言。
  China has 80 or 90 languages.
• 我的祖父活到了九十岁。
  My grandfather lived to be ninety.

Words containing 九十

• 行百里者半九十xíng bǎi lǐ zhě bàn jiǔ shílit. ninety li is merely a half of a hundred li journey (idiom)…
• 饭后百步走，活到九十九fàn hòu bǎi bù zǒu , huó dào jiǔ shí jiǔwalk a hundred steps after each meal and you will live a long life (proverb)

Sounds the same

Read jiǔ shí, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 酒食food and drink