廿

niàn
number #34,486

Meanings

  1. 1 twenty
  2. 2 20 (literary / classical)

Examples

Tā jīnnián niàn suì.
He is twenty this year.
Niànsì Shǐ shì Zhōngguó gǔdài zhèngshǐ de zǒngchēng.
The Twenty-Four Histories is the collective name for China's official ancient histories.

Tips

history
廿 is a single-character ligature of 二十 ('two-ten') used in classical and lunar-calendar contexts, where it means '20' or 'twentieth.' Most famously in 廿 (Twenty-Four Histories) and in lunar dates like 三月廿 (the 26th of the 3rd lunar month, as in Lin Juemin's 1911 farewell letter 《》).
memory
Visually it's just ('two') stretched downward and merged with ('ten') at the bottom — a fused 二十. Compare its siblings: (sà, 30) and (xì, 40).

Stroke Order

廿 niàn