十 (shí) means Ten. Below are 24 of the 78 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.
Dictionary examples
From the graded readers
坐车要二 十 分钟。
zuò chē yāo èrshí fēnzhōng.
It takes twenty minutes by bus.
Graded reader · HSK 1 · Going to School
那时候只要 十 分钟。
nàshí hòu zhǐyào shífēn zhōng.
Then it only takes ten minutes.
Graded reader · HSK 1 · Going to School
我们班有 十 二个学生。
wǒmen bān yǒu shí'èr gè xuésheng.
There are twelve students in our class.
Graded reader · HSK 1 · Learning Chinese
我们每天学习二 十 个字。
wǒmen měitiān xuéxí èrshí gè zì.
We learn twenty characters a day.
Graded reader · HSK 1 · Learning Chinese
一共装了二 十 六个箱子。
yīgòng zhuāngle èrshíliù gè xiāngzi.
Twenty-six boxes in all.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · Moving House
我和小林是 十 年的朋友。
wǒ hé xiǎo lín shì shínián de / dì péngyou.
Xiaolin and I had been friends for ten years.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · A Misunderstanding
From the travel phrasebook
这个要等二 十 分钟。
Zhège yào děng èrshí fēnzhōng.
That one takes twenty minutes.
Travel phrasebook · Reading a Chinese menu
大概三 十 五天到港。
Dàgài sānshíwǔ tiān dào gǎng.
About 35 days to port.
Travel phrasebook · Shipping and customs
可以先付百分之三 十 吗？
Kěyǐ xiān fù bǎi fēn zhī sānshí ma?
Could we pay 30% up front?
Travel phrasebook · Negotiating and pricing
From the grammar library
我 十 八岁了。
Wǒ shíbā suì le.
I've turned eighteen.
Grammar library · HSK 2 · 了 — completed action and change of state
快 十 二点了。
Kuài shí'èr diǎn le.
It's nearly twelve o'clock.
Grammar library · HSK 2 · 快…了 / 要…了 — about to happen
一共二 十 二个人。
Yígòng èrshí'èr ge rén.
Twenty-two people in total.
Grammar library · HSK 1 · 二 vs 两 — two ways to say two
我们班有二 十 个学生。
Wǒmen bān yǒu èrshí ge xuésheng.
There are twenty students in our class.
Grammar library · HSK 1 · 有 — have and there is
这个房间能坐五 十 个人。
Zhège fángjiān néng zuò wǔshí ge rén.
This room can seat fifty people.
Grammar library · HSK 2 · 会 / 能 / 可以 — three ways to say "can"
十 appears in 78 sentences on this site; the 24 shortest and most direct are shown. The rest are on the pages they were written for — the graded readers, the phrasebook and the grammar library.
Words that contain 十
Each of these has sentences of its own, so you can see the character doing a different job in each one.
Questions about 十
How is 十 used in a sentence?
This page shows 78 sentences using 十 (shí, "Ten"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.
Are these sentences machine generated?
No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.
Why do some sentences show 十 inside a longer word?
Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 十 inside the words it builds is how the character stops being an isolated symbol and starts being something you can read.
Is 十 an HSK word?
Yes — 十 is on the official HSK 1 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 1 page.
Where can I see the full entry for 十?
The dictionary page for 十 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.
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