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整数

zhěngshù

integer; whole number

A vendor arranging whole round fruits in neat equal groups at a stall
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Characters in this word

整 zhěng

Strokes
16
Radical
攵 — to rap, to tap
Made of
敕 an imperial order or decree 正 straight, right, proper, correct, just, true
How it's built
Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound

数 shǔ

Strokes
13
Radical
攵 — to rap, to tap
Made of
娄 a constellation 攵 to rap, to tap
How it's built
Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound

Example phrases

  • 请把答案写成整数,不要用小数。 Qǐng bǎ dá'àn xiě chéng zhěngshù, bùyào yòng xiǎoshù. Please write the answer as a whole number, don't use decimals.
  • 这家店的菜价都是整数,方便计算。 Zhè jiā diàn de càijià dōu shì zhěngshù, fāngbiàn jìsuàn. All the dish prices in this restaurant are whole numbers, which makes calculation easy.
  • 数学家研究发现,大整数的分解非常困难。 Shùxuéjiā yánjiū fāxiàn, dà zhěngshù de fēnjiě fēicháng kùnnán. Mathematicians have found that factoring large integers is extremely difficult.

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