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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

十三

shísān

thirteen

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

thirteen

02

13

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 十三 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 十三 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

母亲在我的生日蛋糕上插上了十三枝蜡烛。mǔ qīn zài wǒ de shēng rì dàn gāo shàng chā shàng le shí sān zhī là zhú。

My mother put thirteen candles on my birthday cake.

每年春节时巴黎十三区大陈氏的客人多得吓人。měi nián chūn jié shí bā lí shí sān qū dà chén shì de kè rén duō dé xià rén。

No published English translation for this sentence.

在美国的面包店,「面包店的一打」不是十二,是十三。zài měi guó de miàn bāo diàn,「miàn bāo diàn de yī dǎ」 bú shì shí èr, shì shí sān。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 十三.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 十三.

Directly before

  • 了十三1
  • 巴黎十三1
  • 是十三1

Directly after

  • 十三枝1
  • 十三区大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 十三

What does 十三 mean in Chinese?

十三 (shísān) means thirteen.

How do you pronounce 十三?

十三 is pronounced shísān.

Is 十三 an HSK word?

十三 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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