百分之四十

bǎifēnzhīsìshí
phrase #35,319

Meanings

  1. 1 forty percent (40%)

Examples

Jīnnián de xiāoshòu'é xiàjiàng le bǎifēnzhī sìshí.
Sales dropped by forty percent this year.
Bǎifēnzhī sìshí de xuéshēng xuǎnxiū Zhōngwén.
Forty percent of students take Chinese as an elective.

Tips

grammar
Chinese percentages flip English word order: 百分之 ("of one hundred") comes BEFORE the number. So 40% = 百分之四十 ("of one hundred, forty"), not 四十百分之. Same pattern: 百分之五 (50%), 百分之百 (100%).

Stroke Order

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