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 shí ten / 10
Results beginning with 十
 shí fēn very / completely / utterly / extremely / absolutely / hundred percent / to divide into ten equal parts
 shí nián decade
 shí èr twelve / 12
 shí wǔ fifteen / 15
 shí yī eleven / 11
 shí zú ample / complete / hundred percent / a pure shade (of some color)
 shí sān thirteen / 13
 shí bā eighteen / 18
 Shí yuè October / tenth month (of the lunar year)
 shí jǐ more than ten / a dozen or more
 shí liù sixteen / 16
 shí wàn hundred thousand
 shí sì fourteen / 14
 shí qī seventeen / 17
 shí zì cross road / cross-shaped / crucifix / the character ten
 shí jiǔ nineteen / 19
 shí bèi tenfold / ten times (sth)
 shí wèi the tens place (or column) in the decimal system
 shí shù more than ten / a dozen or more
 shí xiàng ten items / decathlon (athletics)
亿 shí yì one billion / giga-
 shí chéng completely
 shí quán perfect / complete
 shí è Ten
 shí gān same as 天干 / the 10 heavenly stems 甲, 乙, 丙, 丁, 戊, 己, 庚, 辛, 壬, 癸 / (used cyclically in the calendar and as ordinal number like Roman I, II, III)
 shí jiè ten commandments
 shí jiè the ten commandments (religion)
 shí jìn decimal / calculations to base 10
 shí jǐn variant of 什錦|什锦[shi2 jin3]
 shí kè decagram
 shí shèng Tokachi
 Shí yàn Shiyan, prefecture-level city in Hubei
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·  first of October / PRC National day / same as 國慶|国庆[guo2 qing4]
 Shí èr yuè December / twelfth month (of the lunar year)
 Shí yī yuè November / eleventh month (of the lunar year)
 shí wǔ nián fifteen years
 shí zì jià cross / crucifix / yoke one has to endure
 shí zì jūn crusaders / army of crusaders / the Crusades
 shí yī nián eleven years
 shí jiǔ suì 19 years old
 shí sān rì thirteenth day of a month
 shí wǔ dà 1 5th Party Congress (of Chinese Communist Party)
 shí yuè fèn October
 shí èr fēn exceedingly / hundred percent / everything and more
 shí zì xiù cross-stitch
 shí jìn zhì decimal
 shí èr gōng the twelve equatorial constellations or signs of the zodiac in Western astronomy and astrology, namely: Aries 白羊[Bai2 yang2], Taurus 金牛[Jin4 niu2], Gemini 雙子|双子[Shuang1 zi3], Cancer 巨蟹[Ju4 xie4], Leo 獅子|狮子[Shi1 zi3], Virgo 室女[Shi4 nu:3], Libra 天秤[Tian1 cheng4], Scorpio 天蠍|天蝎[Tian1 xie1], Sagittarius 人馬|人马[Ren2 ma3], Capricorn 摩羯[Mo2 jie2], Aquarius 寶瓶|宝瓶[Bao3 ping2], Pisces 雙魚|双鱼[Shuang1 yu2]
 shí zì xíng cruciform / cross shape
 Shí liù guó Sixteen Kingdoms of Five non-Han people (ruling most of China 304-439) / also written 五胡十六國|五胡十六国
 shí sān diǎn half-witted / nitwit
 Shí rì Tán Decameron, collection of 100 tales of love supposedly told by ten young people in ten days, written by Giovanni Boccaccio 薄伽丘[Bo2 jia1 qiu1]
 Shí sān jīng the Thirteen Confucian Classics, namely: Book of Songs 詩經|诗经[Shi1 jing1], Book of History 尚書|尚书[Shang4 shu1], Rites of Zhou 周禮|周礼[Zhou1 li3], Rites and Ceremonies 儀禮|仪礼[Yi2 li3], Classic of Rites 禮記|礼记[Li3 ji4], Book of Changes 易經|易经[Yi4 jing1], Mr Zuo's Annals 左傳|左传[Zuo3 Zhuan4], Mr Gongyang's Annals 公羊傳|公羊传[Gong1 yang2 Zhuan4], Mr Guliang's Annals 穀梁傳|谷梁传[Gu3 liang2 Zhuan4], The Analects 論語|论语[Lun2 yu3], Erya 爾雅|尔雅[Er3 ya3], Classic of Filial Piety 孝經|孝经[Xiao4 jing1], Mencius 孟子[Meng4 zi3]
 shí biān xíng decagon
 shí cháng shì Ten Permanent Functionaries at the end of Han, a byword for corruption
亿 shí duō yì over one billion / more than a billion
 shí èr jīng twelve channels of TCM
 shí èr mǎ 12-yard (sports) / penalty kick
 shí èr zhī the 12 earthly branches 子[zi3], 丑, 寅, 卯, 辰, 巳, 午, 未, 申, 酉, 戌, 亥 / (used cyclically in the calendar and as ordinal number)
 shí jiǎo xíng decagon
 shí jìn wèi decimal system
 shí sān zhāng Chinese poker
 shí sì tiáo Fourteen Points
 shí tiān gān the ten Heavenly Stems 甲[jia3], 乙[yi3], 丙[bing3], 丁[ding1], 戊[wu4], 己[ji3], 庚[geng1], 辛[xin1], 壬[ren2], 癸[gui3] (used cyclically in the calendar and as ordinal number like Roman I, II, III)
 shí wàn wèi the hundred thousands place (or column) in the decimal system
亿 shí wǔ yì one and a half billion
 Shí yàn shì Shiyan, prefecture-level city in Hubei
 shí yī lù (coll.) going on foot
亿 shí yì wǎ gigawatt
 shí zì gǎo pickaxe
 shí zì sī crosshairs
 shí · yī first of October / PRC National Day / same as 國慶|国庆[Guo2 qing4]
· shí · yī first of October / PRC National Day / same as 國慶|国庆[Guo2 qing4]
 shí èr xīng zuò the twelve signs of the zodiac
 shí zì lù kǒu crossroads / intersection
 shí quán shí měi complete and beautiful / to be perfect (idiom)
 shí yǒu bā jiǔ most likely / mostly (in 8 or 9 cases out of 10) / vast majority
 shí liù jìn zhì hexadecimal
 shí èr zhǐ cháng duodenum
 shí wàn huǒ jí most urgent / posthaste / express
 shí zhī bā jiǔ most likely / mostly (in 8 or 9 cases out of 10) / vast majority
 shí è bù shè wicked beyond redemption (idiom) / heinous
 Shí yuè Gé mìng October Revolution
 shí ná jiǔ wěn to be a cinch / in the bag / (of a person) confident of success
 shí sì háng shī sonnet
 shí chéng jiǔ wěn see 十拿九穩|十拿九稳[shi2 na2 jiu3 wen3]
 shí lǐ yáng chǎng the Shanghai of old, with its foreign settlements / (fig.) a bustling, cosmopolitan city
 shí miàn mái fú Ambush from Ten Sides (pipa solo piece) / House of Flying Daggers (2004 movie by Zhang Yimou 張藝謀|张艺谋[Zhang1 Yi4 mou2])
  Decade Watch
  decadal time scale
  decimal degrees
  ten-point agreement
 shí cùn kǒu pào ten inch caliber cannon
 shí dà dòng tiān grotto-heavens
 shí dà jiàn shè Ten
 shí dà shén shòu the Baidu 10 mythical creatures (a set of hoax animals and puns linked to PRC Internet censorship)
 shí dòng rán jù to reject sb after being deeply touched by them (Internet slang)
 shí dǔ jiǔ shū lit. in gambling, nine times out of ten you lose (idiom) / fig. gambling is a mug's game
 shí èr biān xíng dodecagon
 shí èr dì zhī the 12 earthly branches 子[zi3], 丑, 寅, 卯, 辰, 巳, 午, 未, 申, 酉, 戌, 亥 / (used cyclically in the calendar and as ordinal numbers)
 shí èr jiǎo xíng dodecagon
 shí èr jīng mài twelve channels of TCM
 shí èr miàn tǐ dodecahedron
 shí èr shí chen twelve divisions of the day of early Chinese and Babylonian timekeeping and astronomy
 shí èr yuè fèn December
 shí fēn wèi shù decile (statistics)
 shí fēn zhī yī one tenth
 shí guó chūn qiū History of Ten States of South China (1669) by Wu Renchen 吳任臣|吴任臣[Wu2 Ren4 chen2], 114 scrolls
 shí guó jí tuán Group of Ten
 shí jǐ gè yuè ten months or so / about ten months
 shí jìn suàn shù decimal calculation
 shí jìn wèi fǎ decimal system
 shí liù wán zhí cetane number (quality of light diesel fuel, measured by its ignition delay)
 shí liù wèi yuán 16-bit (computing)
 shí liù zì jué 16-character formula, esp. Mao Zedong's mantra on guerrilla warfare: 敵進我退,敵駐我擾,敵疲我打,敵退我追|敌进我退,敌驻我扰,敌疲我打,敌退我追[di2 jin4 wo3 tui4 , di2 zhu4 wo3 rao3 , di2 pi2 wo3 da3 , di2 tui4 wo3 zhui1] when the enemy advances we retreat / when the enemy makes camp we harass / when the enemy is exhausted we fight / and when the enemy retreats we pursue
 Shí qī kǒng qiáo Seventeen-Arch Bridge in the Summer Palace 頤和園|颐和园[Yi2 he2 yuan2], Beijing
 shí xiàng quán néng decathlon
亿 shí yì wǎ shí gigawatt hour
亿 shí yì wèi yuán gigabit
 shí yī yuè fèn November
 shí zì huā kē Cruciferae or Brassicaceae (taxonomic family including Brassica etc whose flowers have a cross of 4 petals)
 shí zì jià xíng crucifiction
 shí zì zhuàn mén turnstile
 shí wàn bā qiān lǐ light-years (apart) / a million miles (apart) / (i.e. indicates a huge difference or a huge distance)
亿  parts per billion
  Decade Coordination Unit
  twelve-point plan / ABC plan
  Group of 11 Opposition Parties / Group of Eleven
  Group of Sixteen
  Group of Thirteen
  Group of Twelve
 shí èr fēn zhī yī one twelfth
 shí èr píng jūn lu:4 equal temperament
 Shí liù guó Chūn qiū history of the Sixteen Kingdoms 304-439 by Cui Hong 崔鴻|崔鸿, written towards the end of Wei of the Northern Dynasties 北魏, 100 scrolls
 shí yī guó lùn tán Group of Eleven Forum / G11 Forum
 shí zì jūn dōng zhēng the Crusades / crusaders' eastern expedition
 shí zì jūn yuǎn zhēng the Crusades
 shí zì tóu luó dāo Phillips screwdriver (i.e. with cross slit)
  mid-decade goals
  Ten-year Programme of Action to Meet the Challenges Facing the Muslim Ummah in the Twenty-first Century / Ten-Year Programme of Action
  Elected Ten
  Commission of Fifteen
  Decennial Education Programme
亿 shí yì xiàng sù tú xiàng gigapixel
  Ten-Nation Committee on Disarmament
  Group of 11 Opposition Parties / Group of Eleven
  Ten-Year Evaluation Committee
 shí zhǐ bù zhān yáng chūn shuǐ to have no need to fend for oneself (idiom) / to lead a pampered life
  Eighteen-Nation Disarmament Committee
  October Inquiry on Retail Prices
 shí nián néng lì jiàn shè fāng àn Ten-Year Capacity-Building Programme
Approximate Results for 十
 èr shí twenty / 20
 wǔ shí fifty
 sì shí forty / 40
 liù shí sixty / 60
 bā shí eighty / 80
 jiǔ shí ninety
 qī shí seventy / 70
 dì shí tenth
 hé shí to put one's palms together (in prayer or greeting)
 bǎi shí a hundred or so
 sān shí thirty / 30
 yùn shí Shanghai Y-10 / Yun-10 commercial jet aircraft
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 èr shí yī twenty-one
 jǐ shí nián several tens of years / several decades
 dì shí yī eleventh
 èr shí sì 24
 dì shí liù sixteenth
 dì shí jiǔ nineteenth
 èr shí wǔ twenty five
 èr shí sān 23
 dì shí èr twelfth
 dì shí sān thirteenth
 èr shí qī twenty-seven
 dì shí wǔ fifteenth
 dì shí bā eighteenth
 dì shí qī seventeenth
 Hóng shí zì Red Cross
 dì èr shí twentieth
 sān shí sì thirty-four / 34
 dì qī shí seventieth
 sì shí sān 43 / forty three
亿 jǐ shí yì several billion
 dì liù shí sixtieth
 Wǔ shí líng Isuzu
 sì shí liù forty six / 46
 liù shí wǔ sixty-five
 dì sān shí thirtieth
 dì bā shí eightieth
 dì jiǔ shí ninetieth
 dì wǔ shí fiftieth
 Shuāng shí jié Double Tenth, the anniversary of the Wuchang Uprising 武昌起義|武昌起义[Wu3 chang1 Qi3 yi4] of October 10th, 1911 / (Tw) National Day
 èr shí duō over 20
 èr shí wàn 200 thousand
亿 èr shí yì two billion
 huà shí zì to make the sign of the cross / to make a cross (on paper)
 huà shí zì variant of 畫十字|画十字[hua4 shi2 zi4]
 nián sān shí last day of the lunar year / Chinese New Year's Eve
 sān shí tiān thirty days
亿 sān shí yì three billion
 Shuāng Shí yī see 光棍節|光棍节[Guang1 gun4 jie2]
亿 shù shí yì several billion
 sì shí duō more than 40
 wǔ shí jiān adhesive capsulitis (frozen shoulder)
 èr shí shì jì 20th century
 Er4 shí yī Tiáo the Japanese Twenty-One Demands of 1915
 hóng shí zì huǐ Red Cross
 qī shí nián dài the seventies / the 1970s
 yī wǔ yī shí lit. count by fives and tens (idiom) / to narrate systematically and in full detail
 wǔ guāng shí sè bright and multicolored / of rich variety / (fig.) dazzling / glitzy
 dà nián sān shí last day of the lunar year / Chinese New Year's Eve
 èr shí liù suì 26 years old
 sān shí ér lì thirty years old and therefore independent (idiom, from Confucius)
 Er4 shí sì Shǐ the Twenty-Four Histories (25 or 26 in modern editions), collection of books on Chinese dynastic history from 3000 BC till 17th century / fig. a long and complicated story
宿 èr shí bā xiù the twenty-eight constellations
 èr shí wǔ shǐ twenty four dynastic histories (or 25 or 26 in modern editions)
 yī mù shí háng ten lines at a glance (idiom) / to read very rapidly
 Míng shí sān líng the Ming tombs (mausoleum park of the Ming emperors in Changping district of Beijing)
 mù xià shí háng see 一目十行[yi1 mu4 shi2 hang2]
 qī lǎo bā shí in one's seventies (age) / very old (of people)
 sān shí liù jì The Thirty-Six Stratagems, a Chinese essay used to illustrate a series of stratagems used in politics, war, and in civil interaction / all the possible schemes and stratagems
 wén yī zhī shí lit. to hear one and know ten (idiom) / fig. explain one thing and (he) understands everything / a word to the wise
 yī pù shí hán one day's sun, ten days' frost (idiom, from Mencius) / fig. to work for a bit then skimp / sporadic effort / lack of sticking power / short attention span
亿  Day of the Five Billion
 bǎi ér bā shí about a hundred / a hundred or so
 bǎi fēn zhī shí ten percent
 cái jūn shí nián Disarmament Decade
 èr shí bā hào 28th day of the month
 èr shí èr hào 22nd day of a month
 èr shí liù hào 26th day of a month
 èr shí miàn tǐ icosahedron
 èr shí qī hào 27th day of a month
 èr shí sì hào 24th day of a month
 Er4 shí sì Xiào the Twenty-four Filial Exemplars, classic Confucian text on filial piety from Yuan dynasty
 èr shí yī diǎn blackjack (card game)
 jiǎ yī péi shí lit. if one is fake, I shall compensate you for ten of them / fig. (of goods) 100% genuine
 liù shí nián dài the sixties / the 1960s
 liù shí sì guà the 64 hexagrams of the Book of Changes (I Ching or Yi Jing) 易經|易经
 liù shí sì wàn 640,000
 liù shí wǔ suì sixty-five years old
 Nán shí zì zuò Crux (constellation) / Southern Cross
 pài tóu shí zú exuberant manner
 sān shí èr xiàng the thirty-two physical characteristics of Buddha
 sān shí nián lái for the past thirty years
亿 sān shí wǔ yì 3.5 billion
 shèng shí zì shěng Świętokrzyskie
 Wǔ dài Shí guó Five Dynasties (907-960) and Ten Kingdoms (902-979), period of political turmoil in ancient China
 wǔ liù shí suì (in one's) fifties or sixties (years of age)
 xīng xiāng shí zú (coll.) to look every bit the big star
 Xuān yuán shí sì Regulus (constellation)
 yī pù shí hán one day's sun, ten days' frost (idiom, from Mencius) / fig. to work for a bit then skimp / sporadic effort / short attention span
 zhū zǐ shí jiā various sages and ten schools of thought / refers to the classical schools of thought, e.g. Confucianism 儒[ru2] represented by Confucius 孔子[Kong3 zi3] and Mencius 孟子[Meng4 zi3], Daoism 道[dao4] by Laozi 老子[Lao3 zi3] and Zhuangzi 莊子|庄子[Zhuang1 zi3], Mohism 墨[mo4] by Mozi 墨子[Mo4 zi3], Legalism 法[fa3] by Sunzi 孫子|孙子[Sun1 zi3] and Han Feizi 韓非子|韩非子[Han2 Fei1 zi3], and numerous others
 èr shí yī shì jì 21st century
 bā jiǔ bù lí shí pretty close / very near / about right
 sān bǎi liù shí háng all walks of life (idiom) / every trade
 bǎn bǎn liù shí sì unaccommodating / rigid
 nu:3 dà shí bā biàn lit. a girl changes eighteen times between childhood and womanhood (idiom) / fig. a young woman is very different from the little girl she once was
亿  golden billion
亿  bottom billion
  Factor Ten Scenario
绿  Green Cross International
  Consultative Group on International Economics and Monetary Policy / Group of Thirty
 bǎi fēn zhī jiǔ shí 90 percent
 bǎi fēn zhī wǔ shí fifty percent
 běn dǔ shí liù shì Pope Benedict XVI, original name Joseph Alois Ratzinger (1927-), pope 2005-2013
 èr shí guó jí tuán Group of Twenty
 èr shí sì jié qi the 24 solar terms, calculated from the position of the sun on the ecliptic, that divide the year into 24 equal periods
绿 guó jì lu:4 shí zì International Green Cross
 huáng dào shí èr gōng see 十二宮|十二宫[shi2 er4 gong1]
 hú jiā shí bā pāi Eighteen
 liǎng diǎn shí jiǔ fēn 2 :1 9 (time of day)
 liù shí sì wèi yuán 64-bit (computing)
 mǎ ěr tā shí zì Maltese
 méi guī shí zì huì Rosicrucian
 qiáng wēi shí zì tuán the Rosicrucian order (masonic order)
 sān qī èr shí yī three sevens are twenty-one (idiom) / the facts of the matter / the actual situation
线 sān shí bā dù xiàn 38th parallel / dividing line agreed at Yalta between US and Soviet zones of influence in Korea, now the DMZ between North and South Korea
 sān shí èr wèi yuán 32-bit (computing)
 sān shí liù zì mǔ thirty six initial consonants of Song phonetic theory
 Shān běn Wǔ shí liù YAMAMOTO Isoroku (1884-1943), Japanese admiral
 sì shí èr zhāng jīng The Sutra in Forty-two Sections Spoken by the Buddha, the first Chinese Buddhist text, translated in 67 AD by Kasyapa-Matanga 迦葉摩騰|迦叶摩腾[Jia1 ye4 Mo2 teng2] and Gobharana 竺法蘭|竺法兰[Zhu2 fa3 lan2] (Dharmaraksha)
 sì shí xiàng jiàn yì The Forty Recommendations
 Tài zǐ shí sān fēng thirteen peaks of Meili Snow Mountains in Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture 迪慶藏族自治州|迪庆藏族自治州[Di2 qing4 Zang4 zu2 Zi4 zhi4 zhou1], Yunnan / also written 梅里雪山[Mei2 li3 Xue3 shan1]
 Wǔ hú Shí liù guó Sixteen Kingdoms of Five non-Han people (ruling most of China 304-439)
 xīn shí dà jiàn shè New
 yǎ diǎn shí jiāng jūn Strategos
 yī bǎi èr shí liù 126
亿 yī bǎi wǔ shí yì 15 billion
·  Benedict XVI (Pope) / Joseph Alois Ratzinger (1927-), Pope from 2005
 wǔ shí bù xiào bǎi bù the one who has retreated 50 steps laughs at the one who has retreated 100 steps (idiom) / the pot calls the kettle black
  League of Red Cross Societies
 bǎi dù shí dà shén shòu The Baidu 10 Mythical Creatures (a set of hoax animals and puns linked to PRC internet censorship)
 bā lí dì shí dà xué University
 Běn dǔ · shí liù shì Pope Benedict XVI / Joseph Alois Ratzinger (1927-), pope 2005-2013
· Běn dǔ · shí liù shì Pope Benedict XVI / Joseph Alois Ratzinger (1927-), pope 2005-2013
 fēi zhōu fù rǔ shí nián African Women's Decade
 fēi zhōu r tóng shí nián Decade of the African Child
 gè dǎ wǔ shí dà bǎn lit. to give each one a flogging of fifty strokes (idiom) / fig. to punish the guilty and the innocent alike / to put the blame on both parties
 kē dé shí èr dìng lu:4 Codd's
 nán méng rǔ tóng shí nián SAARC Decade of the Girl Child
 Qī shí qī Guó Jí tuán Group of 77, loose alliance of developing countries, founded in 1964
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