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How do you say "eighty-eight" in Chinese?
八十八
bā shí bā
In Chinese, "eighty-eight" is 八十八.
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Pronunciation
Bah shuh bah, flat tone, falling tone, flat tone. The repetition creates symmetry in speech.
Writing and usage
Bā (八) appears twice, forming a palindromic number with doubled sound and visual structure.
Example sentence
这个号码是八十八。
This number is eighty-eight.
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How to remember 八十八
Eighty-eight, like fifty-five and seventy-seven, has a repeated syllable that makes it rhythmically memorable.
Related words
- clear 晴 qíng
- dirty 脏 zāng
- eighty 八十 bā shí
- fifty-six 五十六 wǔ shí liù
- heavy 重 zhòng
- purple 紫 zǐ
- relaxed 松 sōng
- sixty-three 六十三 liù shí sān
- thirty-nine 三十九 sān shí jiǔ
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Questions about 八十八
How do you say "eighty-eight" in Chinese?
In Chinese, "eighty-eight" is 八十八. It is a noun.
How is 八十八 written in Chinese?
Bā (八) appears twice, forming a palindromic number with doubled sound and visual structure.
How is 八十八 used in a sentence?
Use 八十八 as you would use the equivalent noun in English. For example: 这个号码是八十八。 (This number is eighty-eight.).
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"Eighty-eight" in other languages
- Japanese 八十八 (hachijūhachi)
- Korean 팔십팔 (pal sip pal)
- Spanish ochenta y ocho
- Spanish (Latin America) ochenta y ocho
- French quatre-vingt-huit
- German achtundachtzig
- Italian ottantotto
- Russian восемьдесят восемь (vosem'desyat' vosem')
- Greek ογδοντα οχτώ (ogdónta ochtó)
- Arabic تمانية وتمانين (tamanya witamaneen)
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