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How do you say "eighty-five" in Chinese?
八十五
bā shí wǔ
In Chinese, "eighty-five" is 八十五.
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Pronunciation
Bah shuh woo, flat tone, falling tone, rising tone (woo) on the last syllable.
Writing and usage
Wǔ (五) appears here. Five maintains its consistent presence across all x-five numbers.
Example sentence
他们参加了八十五场比赛。
They participated in eighty-five games.
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How to remember 八十五
Eighty-five shares the wǔ ending with seventy-five and sixty-five, creating pattern predictability.
Related words
- brown 棕 zōng
- eighty 八十 bā shí
- eighty-one 八十一 bā shí yī
- empty 空 kōng
- forty-two 四十二 sì shí èr
- one 一 yī
- seventeen 十七 shí qī
- sixty 六十 liù shí
- wrong 错误 cuòwù
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Questions about 八十五
How do you say "eighty-five" in Chinese?
In Chinese, "eighty-five" is 八十五. It is a noun.
How is 八十五 written in Chinese?
Wǔ (五) appears here. Five maintains its consistent presence across all x-five numbers.
How is 八十五 used in a sentence?
Use 八十五 as you would use the equivalent noun in English. For example: 他们参加了八十五场比赛。 (They participated in eighty-five games.).
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"Eighty-five" in other languages
- Japanese 八十五 (hachijūgo)
- Korean 팔십오 (pal sip o)
- Spanish ochenta y cinco
- Spanish (Latin America) ochenta y cinco
- French quatre-vingt-cinq
- German fünfundachtzig
- Italian ottantacinque
- Russian восемьдесят пять (vosem'desyat' pyat')
- Greek ογδοντα πέντε (ogdónta pénte)
- Arabic خمسة وتمانين (khamsa witamaneen)
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