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十

shí

ten

A single vertical line, representing one set of ten. Analagous to the archaic characters 廿 (twenty) and 卅 (thirty). Possibly originally a picture of a needle, now written as 針.

Evolution

十 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
十 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
十 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
十 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
十 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

十  

shí

ten, tenth; complete; perfect; ten; 10

Most common words with 十
Freq.
Word
Meaning

十分

very

十

ten

十几

more than ten

十足

ample

十月

October

Component uses

Meaning component in 8 characters (4 verified)

什 計 计 丈 裁 截 赍 卄

Sound component in 6 characters (6 verified)

协 協 叶 針 针 汁

Unknown component in 2 characters (0 verified)

鴇 鸨

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*t.[g]əp

dzyip

shí

ten


Statistics

HSK level 1

Appears in 66.8909% of movies

468th most common character in movies

112th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

2

Unicode

U+5341

Shuowen

“十，數之具也。一為東西，丨為南北，則四方中央備矣。”


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