"Fifty" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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 wǔ shí fifty
 bàn bǎi fifty (usually referring to sb's age)
 bàn bái fifty (years of age)
 guò bàn over fifty percent / more than half
 zhé bàn to reduce by fifty percent / half-price
 hú ancient measuring vessel / fifty liters / dry measure for grain equal to five dou 五斗 / (before Tang, ten pecks)
 bǎi fēn zhī wǔ shí fifty percent
 wǔ máo fifty cents (0.5 RMB) / (fig.) paltry sum of money / (abbr. for 五毛黨|五毛党[wu3 mao2 dang3]) hired Internet commenter
 Ní è lì dé Nereids (Greek sea nymphs, fifty daughters of Nereus and Doris) / Nereid, moon of Neptune
 wǔ máo dǎng fifty cents party (person supposed to relay government propaganda on Internet sites)
 ài lǎo (literary) person aged over fifty / elderly person
 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
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