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四十

sì shí

2-character word

What 四十 means

1. forty
2. 40

The characters in 四十

• 四sìfour; 4
• 十shíten; 10

Example sentences

• 他年近四十。
  Tā nián jìn sì shí.
  He is nearly 40.
• 她是四十岁。
  She is forty years old.
• 我爸快四十了。
  Wǒ bà kuài sì shí le.
  My father will be forty soon.
• 六点四十五了。
  It's a quarter to seven.
• 请读第四十九页。
  Please read out page 49.
• 我欠你四十块钱。
  I owe you forty dollars.

Words starting with 四十

• 四十二章经Sì shí èr Zhāng jīngThe Sutra in Forty-two Sections Spoken by the Buddha, the first Chinese Buddhist text…

Sounds the same

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

• 四时the four seasons, namely: spring 春
• 巳时9-11 am (in the system of two-hour subdivisions used in former times)