二三十

èrsānshí

number #25,116

Meanings

1 twenty or thirty
2 around twenty to thirty

Characters

Examples

教室里有二三十个学生。

Jiàoshì lǐ yǒu èrsānshí gè xuésheng.

There are twenty or thirty students in the classroom.

这件事二三十年前就发生过了。

Zhè jiàn shì èrsānshí nián qián jiù fāshēng guò le.

This happened twenty or thirty years ago.

Tips

grammar

二三十 is a vague number expression meaning roughly 20-30. This pattern of combining two consecutive decade-numbers (二三十, 三四十, 四五十) is common in spoken Chinese for approximation.

Stroke Order

二 èr

三 sān

十 shí