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How do you say "seventy-eight" in Chinese?
七十八
qī shí bā
In Chinese, "seventy-eight" is 七十八.
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Pronunciation
Chee shuh bah, rising tone, falling tone, flat tone (bah) on the last syllable.
Writing and usage
Eight (八) with its expanding diagonal strokes appears in seventy-eight, maintaining visual consistency.
Example sentence
这列火车有七十八个座位。
This train has seventy-eight seats.
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How to remember 七十八
Bā (八) looks like opening arms or a spreading gesture, a visual anchor for eight across all numbers.
Related words
- beautiful 美丽 měilì
- cold 冷 lěng
- dry 干 gān
- seven 七 qī
- seventy-nine 七十九 qī shí jiǔ
- thirteen 十三 shí sān
- twenty-five 二十五 èr shí wǔ
- two 二 èr
- wide 宽 kuān
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Questions about 七十八
How do you say "seventy-eight" in Chinese?
In Chinese, "seventy-eight" is 七十八. It is a noun.
How is 七十八 written in Chinese?
Eight (八) with its expanding diagonal strokes appears in seventy-eight, maintaining visual consistency.
How is 七十八 used in a sentence?
Use 七十八 as you would use the equivalent noun in English. For example: 这列火车有七十八个座位。 (This train has seventy-eight seats.).
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"Seventy-eight" in other languages
- Japanese 七十八 (nanajūhachi)
- Korean 칠십팔 (chil sip pal)
- Spanish setenta y ocho
- Spanish (Latin America) setenta y ocho
- French soixante-dix-huit
- German achtundsiebzig
- Italian settantotto
- Russian семьдесят восемь (sem'desyat' vosem')
- Greek εβδομήντα οχτώ (evdomínta ochtó)
- Arabic تمانية وسبعين (tamanya wisab'een)
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