十 (sap6 | shi2) : ten

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十

sap6

shi2

[1] ten; tenth
[2] complete; completely; perfect; extremely; perfectly
[3] KangXi radical 24

alternate and formal form used on checks, in accounting and banking: 拾

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Stroke count: 2

Level: 1

Radical: 十 (#24)

This character is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

十

This word has been viewed 18730 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by sheik on 18th Mar 2007 21:22 and last edited on 8th Jul 2009 20:43

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十分 sap6 fan1 shi2 fen1 = completely, fully, very; perfect [score]

十字 sap6 zi6 shi2 zi4 = a cross

十月 sap6 jyut6 shi2 yue4 = October

十一月 sap6 jat1 jyut6 shi2 yi1 yue4 = November

十二月 sap6 ji6 jyut6 shi2 er4 yue4 = December

十年 sap6 nin4 = decade

第十 dai6 sap6 di4 shi2 = tenth

第十一 dai6 sap6 jat1 di4 shi2 yi1 = eleventh

六十 luk6 sap6 liu4 shi2 = sixty

五十 ng5 sap6 wu3 shi2 = fifty
See all 172 compounds (CantoDict reports 314 compounds in total, but some may be Common Formations)

Showing all 26 examples containing 十

一隊足球隊有十一個人。
A football team consists of eleven members.

四十除八等於五
Forty divided by eight equals five.
[Lit. forty divide eight equals five. This is okay both for written and spoken Cantonese.]

琴晚個派對十分之熱鬧呀！粵
The party yesterday night was extremely lively (and exciting)!
[the word "排對" is incorrect. we should say "派對"]

一分鐘有六十秒。
There are sixty seconds in a minute.

一小時有六十分鐘。
There are sixty minutes in an hour.

聖誕節之前只剩下二十三天買禮物了！國
There are only 23 shopping days left until Christmas.

我哋嗰個年代十七歲粵
We were 17 (years old) back then.
[Lit. We that generation 17 years old]

佢就嚟十五歲嘅啦粵
He's almost 15 years old.
[Lit. he almost 15 year [particles]]

佢喺多倫多住咗十年喇。粵
He has lived in Toronto for ten years.
[喇 means "by now" in the sentence, indicating sth in the present. Cutting off 喇, the sentence would mean "He lived in Toronto for ten years", indicating sth of the past.]

一呎是十二吋長國
One foot is twelve inches long.

十三不祥
13 is an unlucky number

雖然佢三十六度板斧都出齊，但都唔夠你犀利粵
Although he put in all that he knew, he could not match up with you.

董先生偷拍女朋友的十來歲的女兒洗澡國
Mr. Dong is taking pictures of his girlfriend's teenage daughter bathing without her knowledge.

佢一個屈尾十就走咗粵
He just turned around and he walked away.

我撴嚫個八月十五。粵
I fell on my bottom.
[http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/phorum/read.php?14,127822,127824#msg-127824]

你做初一我做十五
tit for tat, an eye for an eye
[Lit. "what you do for the first half of the month, I will do back to you for the second half" i.e do me harm and I will return the favour. See a video featuring this phrase [url=http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/phorum/read.php?7,84620]here.[/url]]

佢今年八十歲啦，重係咁精神爽利粵
She is already eighty this year, yet she is still full of life and zest.

搭地鐵由西灣河到銅鑼灣只需大概二十分鐘嘅車程。粵
It takes only around twenty minutes from Sai Wan Hoi to Causeway Bay by MTR (the Metro).

阿媽鬧人中氣十足。粵
Mum can scold people very loudly

你一日食十包煙，想早啲釘蓋呀？粵
You smoke ten packs of cigarettes a day, (you) got a death wish?
[Lit: You smoke ten packs of cigarettes a day, (you) want to die earlier?]

多謝嗮你噃，承惠十一銀啦。粵
Thank you. Please pay eleven dollars.

呢個復活節係咪去北海道滑雪,重係十劃都未有一撇。粵
It's still far too early to tell if we are going skiing in Hokkaido this Easter.
[In this sentence, the third character 都 in the idiom 十劃都未有一撇 could be moved three spaces up so that the latter half of the sentence would become 都重係十劃未有一撇. The meaning would remain the same. ]

妳嘅八月十五好大。粵
Your butt is huge.

我哋去到嗰陣﹐場面十分墟冚。粵
The scene was all alive by the time we arrived.

人質囚禁咗二十日後獲釋。粵
The hostages have been set free after 20 days in captivity.
[Aspect marker 咗 is used to indicate passive voice.]

旅遊業者不須擔心少了某種噱頭十足的用語而流失生意國
The travel industry should not be unduly worried about businesses badly affected due to the cessation in the use of gimmicky linguistics of their promotions.

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Decimal representation of this word: 十
Unicode code for this character: U+5341 (off-site link)

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