Smaller galaxies have "only" a few thousand stars. The biggest ones have trillions.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
数万
several tens of thousands
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
several tens of thousands
02
many thousand
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 数万 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 数万 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Today our numbers are few, but with the right political strategy, in a couple years we may number in the tens of thousands.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 数万.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 数万.
Directly before
- 有数万1
- 达到数万1
Directly after
- 数万亿颗1
- 数万人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 数万
What does 数万 mean in Chinese?
数万 (shùwàn) means several tens of thousands.
How do you pronounce 数万?
数万 is pronounced shùwàn.
Is 数万 an HSK word?
数万 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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