数以万计

數以萬計
shùyǐwànjì
phrase #28,663

Meanings

  1. 1 tens of thousands
  2. 2 numbering in the tens of thousands
  3. 3 countless

Examples

Shùyǐwànjì de yóukè měi nián lái zhèlǐ cānguān.
Tens of thousands of tourists visit here every year.
Zhè chǎng zāinàn dǎozhì shùyǐwànjì de rén shīqù jiāyuán.
The disaster caused tens of thousands of people to lose their homes.

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usage
数以万计 is a formal expression used in written and journalistic Chinese. The structure X (numbered in X's) is productive: 数以百计 (hundreds of), 数以千计 (thousands of), 亿 (hundreds of millions of).

Stroke Order

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wàn