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How do you say "ninety-eight" in Chinese?
九十八
jiǔ shí bā
In Chinese, "ninety-eight" is 九十八.
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Pronunciation
Jyoo shuh bah, rising tone, falling tone, flat tone (bah) on the final part.
Writing and usage
Eight (八) with its opening diagonal strokes completes the last regular number in the nineties.
Example sentence
这个球队获得了九十八分。
This team scored ninety-eight points.
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How to remember 九十八
Bā (八) visually opens outward, and ninety-eight is the final eight-based number in the two-digit range.
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- fast 快 kuài
- five 五 wǔ
- forty-four 四十四 sì shí sì
- ninety-three 九十三 jiǔ shí sān
- ninety-two 九十二 jiǔ shí èr
- thirty-six 三十六 sān shí liù
- twenty-five 二十五 èr shí wǔ
- twenty-six 二十六 èr shí liù
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Questions about 九十八
How do you say "ninety-eight" in Chinese?
In Chinese, "ninety-eight" is 九十八. It is a noun.
How is 九十八 written in Chinese?
Eight (八) with its opening diagonal strokes completes the last regular number in the nineties.
How is 九十八 used in a sentence?
Use 九十八 as you would use the equivalent noun in English. For example: 这个球队获得了九十八分。 (This team scored ninety-eight points.).
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"Ninety-eight" in other languages
- Japanese 九十八 (kyūjūhachi)
- Korean 구십팔 (gu sip pal)
- Spanish noventa y ocho
- Spanish (Latin America) noventa y ocho
- French quatre-vingt-dix-huit
- German achtundneunzig
- Italian novantotto
- Russian девяносто восемь (devyanosto vosem')
- Greek ενενήντα οχτώ (enenínta ochtó)
- Arabic تمانية وتسعين (tamanya witiseen)
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