第十七

dìshíqī

number #28,076

Meanings

1 the seventeenth
2 17th

Characters

ordinal prefix; rank

Examples

他在比赛中排名第十七。

Tā zài bǐsài zhōng páimíng dìshíqī.

He ranked seventeenth in the competition.

今天是这个月的第十七天。

Jīntiān shì zhège yuè de dìshíqī tiān.

Today is the seventeenth day of this month.

Tips

grammar

第 is the ordinal prefix in Chinese, equivalent to adding '-th' in English. It can precede any number to form an ordinal: 第一 (first), 第二 (second), 第十七 (seventeenth).

Stroke Order

第 dì

十 shí

七 qī