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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

十六

shíliù

sixteen

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

sixteen

02

16

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 十六 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 十六 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

一磅等于十六盎司。yī bàng děng yú shí liù àng sī。

No published English translation for this sentence.

十六的平方根等於四。shí liù de píng fāng gēn děng yú sì。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 十六.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 十六.

Directly before

  • 等于十六1

Directly after

  • 十六盎司1
  • 十六的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 十六

What does 十六 mean in Chinese?

十六 (shíliù) means sixteen.

How do you pronounce 十六?

十六 is pronounced shíliù.

Is 十六 an HSK word?

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

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