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Chinese
Etymology
Calque of English ten thousand.
Pronunciation
| Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
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| Character
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十
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千
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| Reading #
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1/1
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1/1
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Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
|
shí
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qiān
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Middle
Chinese
|
‹ dzyip ›
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‹ tshen ›
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Old
Chinese
|
/*t.əp/
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/*s.n̥ˁi/
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| English
|
ten
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thousand
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Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:
* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;
* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
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| Zhengzhang system (2003)
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| Character
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十
|
千
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| Reading #
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1/1
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1/1
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| No.
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11452
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10792
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Phonetic
component
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十
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人
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Rime
group
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緝
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眞
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Rime
subdivision
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3
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1
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Corresponding
MC rime
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十
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千
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Old
Chinese
|
/*ɡjub/
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/*sn̥ʰiːn/
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| Notes
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|
小徐人聲，甲文乃借人加一
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Numeral
十千
- (Malaysia, Singapore, colloquial) ten thousand
2001, 黃一飛 [Freddie Huang] (lyrics and music), “一百萬”performed by 黃一飛 [Freddie Huang]:
十千八千拿去用 免還嘛無問題 [Hokkien, trad.]
十千八千拿去用 免还嘛无问题 [Hokkien, simp.]- cha̍p-chheng poeh-chheng the̍h khì ēng, bián hoân mā bô-būn-tôe [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]
- Ten thousand or eight thousand bucks, take and use it, it's even okay to not pay it back
- (literary) numerous; very many
亦服爾耕，十千維耦。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
亦服尔耕，十千维耦。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]- From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11th – 7th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version
- Yì fú ěr gēng, shíqiān wéi ǒu.
- Attend to your ploughing,
With your ten thousand men all in pairs.
新豐美酒斗十千，咸陽遊俠多少年。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
新丰美酒斗十千，咸阳游侠多少年。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]- From: 8th century, Wang Wei (王維), 少年行四首‧其一
- Xīnfēng měijiǔ dǒu shíqiān, Xiányáng yóuxiá duō shàonián.
- (please add an English translation of this usage example)
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