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负数

fù shù

2-character word Traditional 負數

What 负数 means

1. negative number

The characters in 负数

• 负fùto bear; to carry (on one's back); to turn one's back on
• 数shùnumber; figure; several; a few

Example sentences

• 我的老师教我负数也可以开平方根。
  My teacher taught me that you can take the square root of a negative number.

Words containing 负数

• 非负数fēi fù shùa nonnegative number (i.e. positive or zero)

Sounds the same

Read fù shù, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 复述to repeat (one's own words or sb else's); (in the classroom) to paraphrase what one has…
• 复数(linguistics) plural; (math) complex number
• 富庶populous and affluent