廿

How to Say
How to Write
niàn
Radical: 廾 4 strokes
Meaning: twenty
💡 Imagine 二 and 十 fused together: two tens make twenty.
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廿 (niàn) meaning in English —

廿 (niàn) is a condensed form of 二十 (èr shí, 'twenty'), merging the characters 二 (two) and 十 (ten) into a single glyph. Historically used in calendars and formal writing to save space, it appears in dates like 廿日 (the 20th day). Its radical 廾 (hands together) hints at the original pictograph of two hands holding something, but in 廿 it purely represents the numeral.

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