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五十

wǔ shí

2-character word

What 五十 means

1. fifty

The characters in 五十

• 五wǔfive; 5
• 十shíten; 10

Example sentences

• 五十步笑百步。
  Wǔshíbùxiàobǎibù.
  The pot calls the kettle black.
• 本题占五十分。
  This question counts for 50 points.
• 总共有五十个人。
  Zǒnggòng yǒu wǔshí gèrén.
  There were fifty persons in all.
• 我父亲五十岁了。
  My father is fifty years old.
• 美国组成五十州。
  America is made up of 50 states.
• 这班有五十个学生。
  The class consists of fifty students.

Words starting with 五十

• 五十肩wǔ shí jiānadhesive capsulitis (frozen shoulder)
• 五十铃Wǔ shí língIsuzu
• 五十步笑百步wǔ shí bù xiào bǎi bù(lit.) the one who has retreated 50 steps laughs at the one who has retreated 100 steps…

Words containing 五十

• 山本五十六Shān běn Wǔ shí liùYAMAMOTO Isoroku (1884-1943), Japanese admiral
• 各打五十大板gè dǎ wǔ shí dà bǎnlit. to give each one a flogging of fifty strokes (idiom)…

Sounds the same

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

• 午时11 am-1 pm (in the system of two-hour subdivisions used in former times)