十二(shí èr): twelve
2 characters
twelve
Character breakdown
2 characters · plays one at a time
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Word information
- Pinyin
- shí èr
- Meaning
- twelve
- HSK level
- —
- Characters
- 2
- Traditional
- Same
Related words
Common words sharing a character with 十二 — tap one to open its word page.
yī一wǔ五yī一shí十
lit. count by fives and tens (idiom); to narrate systematically and in full detail
yī一bào暴shí十hán寒
variant of 一曝十寒[yi1 pu4 shi2 han2]
yī一pù曝shí十hán寒
one day's sun, ten days' frost (idiom, from Mencius); fig. to work for a bit then skimp
yī一mù目shí十háng行
ten lines at a glance (idiom)
qī七shí十
seventy
qī七shí十nián年dài代
the seventies; the 1970s
qī七lǎo老bā八shí十
in one's seventies (age)
sān三shí十
thirty
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