第二十二

dìèrshí'èr
number #31,054

Meanings

  1. 1 the twenty-second
  2. 2 22nd

Examples

Jīntiān shì jiǔyuè dì èrshí'èr tiān.
Today is the twenty-second day of September.
Tā zài dì èrshí'èr jiè Àoyùnhuì shàng duójīn.
He won gold at the 22nd Olympic Games.

Tips

grammar
Pattern: (ordinal marker) + number = "the Nth." 第二十二 follows the standard + 二十二 (22) construction. The classic literary reference is 《第二十二军规》 — the Chinese title of Joseph Heller's novel Catch-22.

In Pop Culture

第二十二军规 Dì èrshí'èr Tiáo Jūnguī
Catch-22
Joseph Heller's 1961 satirical novel about WWII pilots trapped by paradoxical military bureaucracy. The Chinese title literally means "Military Regulation No. 22."

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