He is close to sixty.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
六十
sixty
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
sixty
02
60
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 六十 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 六十 appears in 9 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
A minute has sixty seconds.
This wooden chair costs sixty pounds.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 六十.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 六十.
Directly before
- 有六十3
- 近六十1
- 包含六十1
- 由六十1
- 椅子六十1
Directly after
- 六十秒4
- 六十分钟2
- 六十英镑1
- 六十来1
- 六十亿1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 六十
What does 六十 mean in Chinese?
六十 (liùshí) means sixty.
How do you pronounce 六十?
六十 is pronounced liùshí.
Is 六十 an HSK word?
六十 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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