Mnemonic comic for 十
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Mnemonic symbol: a holy cross. Sherlock Holmes (sh-) is investigating a very strange thing he found in the kitchen of the space station (-2): A big pyramid made of ten (十) crosses (十), which are in turn made out of flutes (一) and dinosaur bones (丨).
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十 character breakdown
one / single / a (article) / as soon as / entire; whole; all; throughout / "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1) / also pr. [yao1] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit
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radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 2)
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vertical stroke (in Chinese characters), referred to as 豎筆|竖笔[shu4 bi3]
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Characters with 十 as component
午
土
牛
干
田
千
早
士
直
卑
古
叶
木
单
朝
什
卒
车
协
伞
辛
盾
质
南
支
华
毕
率
索
计
卉
真
卖
斗
汁
壴
针
丧
㐄
德
毌
韩
𢦏
卂
甫
博
贲
孛
単
計
協
準
翰
針
傘
隼
戟
辻
壊
聴
疐
卆
繊
肸
聼
亁
兙
卋
皁
旪
瓧
籵
7th earthly branch: 11 a.m.-1 p.m., noon, 5th solar month (6th June-6th July), year of the Horse / ancient Chinese compass point: 180° (south)
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earth / dust / clay / local / indigenous / crude opium / unsophisticated / one of the eight categories of ancient musical instruments 八音[ba1 yin1]
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Tu (ethnic group) / surname Tu
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ox / cow / bull / CL:條|条[tiao2],頭|头[tou2] / newton (abbr. for 牛頓|牛顿[niu2 dun4]) / (slang) awesome
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dry / dried food / empty; hollow / taken in to nominal kinship; adoptive; foster / futile; in vain / (dialect) rude; blunt / (dialect) to cold-shoulder
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variant of 乾|干[gan1]
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(bound form) to have to do with; to concern oneself with / one of the ten heavenly stems 天干[tian gan1] / (archaic) shield
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tree trunk / main part of sth / to manage / to work / to do / capable / cadre / to kill (slang) / to fuck (vulgar) / (coll.) pissed off / annoyed
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field / farm / CL:片[pian4]
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see 鞦韆|秋千[qiu1 qian1]
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thousand
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early / morning / Good morning! / long ago / prematurely
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Words with 十
lit. count by fives and tens (idiom); to narrate systematically and in full detail
three sevens are twenty-one (idiom) / the facts of the matter / the actual situation
It's a long and intricate story, I hardly know where to start.
Group of 77, loose alliance of developing countries, founded in 1964
38th parallel / dividing line agreed at Yalta between US and Soviet zones of influence in Korea, now the DMZ between North and South Korea
The Thirty-Six Stratagems, a Chinese essay used to illustrate a series of stratagems used in politics, war, and in civil interaction / all the possible schemes and stratagems
of the thirty-six stratagems, the best option is to flee (idiom) / the best thing to do is leave
news pass quickly from mouth to mouth (idiom) / an infectious disease spreads quickly (old meaning)
bitten by a snake in one year, fears the well rope for ten years (idiom); once bitten twice shy
one day's sun, ten days' frost (idiom, from Mencius); fig. to work for a bit then skimp / sporadic effort / short attention span
one day's sun, ten days' frost (idiom, from Mencius); fig. to work for a bit then skimp / sporadic effort / lack of sticking power / short attention span
Sentences with 十
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