卅

sà
number #39,346

Meanings

  1. 1 thirty; 30

Characters

Examples

HSK 1
Tā zài zhèlǐ gōngzuò le sà nián.
He has worked here for thirty years.
HSK 6
Wǔsà Yùndòng yú yī jiǔ èr wǔ nián zài Shànghǎi bàofā.
The May Thirtieth Movement broke out in Shanghai in 1925.

Tips

memory
Look at the shape: three 十 (ten) joined at the base, so 'three tens' = thirty. Compare 廿 (twenty, two tens). Most famous in 五卅 (May 30th).

Components

ideograph
卅 sà
thirty (three tens joined)
卅 is an abstract numeral made by fusing three 十 (ten) signs into one connected shape, directly writing 'thirty'. It is not built from smaller independent parts, so it stands as a single unit.

Filed under radical 十 (shí, #24) by convention. 十 is not a separate component in 卅, so no strokes are highlighted.

Stroke Order

卅 sà