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十四

shí sì

2-character word

What 十四 means

1. fourteen; 14

The characters in 十四

• 十shíten; 10
• 四sìfour; 4

Example sentences

• 一天有二十四个小时。
  A day has twenty-four hours.
• 我买了二十四支铅笔。
  I bought two dozen pencils.
• 我会写五十四个汉字。
  I know how to write fifty-four Chinese characters.
• 地球每二十四小时就会绕轴自转一周。
  Dìqiú měi èrshí sì xiǎoshí jiù huì rào zhóu zìzhuàn yīzhōu.
  The earth revolves on its axis once every 24 hours.
• 我十四岁的时候，父亲死于蛛网膜下出血。
  Wǒ shísì suì de shíhou, fùqīn sǐ yú zhūwǎng mó xià chūxuè.
  I lost my father to a subarachnoid haemorrhage when I was fourteen.
• 东京是日本最大的城市，也是一个每天二十四小时都充满活力的地方。
  Tokyo, which is the largest city in Japan, is awake 24 hours.

Words starting with 十四

• 十四行诗shí sì háng shīsonnet

Words containing 十四

• 二十四史Èr shí sì Shǐthe Twenty-Four Histories (25 or 26 in modern editions), collection of books on Chinese…
• 二十四孝Èr shí sì Xiàothe Twenty-four Filial Exemplars, classic Confucian text on filial piety from Yuan dynasty
• 六十四卦liù shí sì guàthe 64 hexagrams of the Book of Changes 易经
• 轩辕十四Xuān yuán shí sìRegulus (constellation)
• 二十四节气èr shí sì jié qithe 24 solar terms, calculated from the position of the sun on the ecliptic, that divide…
• 六十四位元liù shí sì wèi yuán64-bit (computing)
• 板板六十四bǎn bǎn liù shí sìunaccommodating; rigid
• 一部二十四史，不知从何说起yī bù èr shí sì shǐ , bù zhī cóng hé shuō qǐIt's a long and intricate story, I hardly know where to start.

Sounds the same

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

• 食肆restaurant; eatery