二三十

èrsānshí

number #25,116

Meanings

1 twenty or thirty
2 around twenty to thirty

Characters

Examples

HSK 2

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.

HSK 5

这件事二三十年前就发生过了。

Zhè jiàn shì èrsānshí niánqián 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