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廿

niàn

Character

What 廿 means

1. twenty

Words starting with 廿

• 廿八躔niàn bā chánthe twenty-eight constellations; also written 二十八宿
• 廿四史niàn sì shǐtwenty four dynastic histories (or 25 or 26 in modern editions); same as 二十四史

Sounds the same

Read niàn, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 念to read; to study (a subject); to attend (a school)
• 卄twenty, twentieth
• 埝earth embankment used to hold back or retain water; dike around a paddy field
• 齞to display the teeth

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