十二 (shí'èr) means Twelve. Below are 6 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
小区里一共有 十二 栋房子。
Xiǎoqū lǐ yígòng yǒu shí'èr dòng fángzi.
There are twelve buildings in the compound altogether.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 栋
十二 生肖是中国传统文化的一部分。
Shí'èr shēngxiào shì Zhōngguó chuántǒng wénhuà de yí bùfen.
The twelve zodiac animals are a part of traditional Chinese culture.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 生肖
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From the graded readers
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
From the travel phrasebook
From the grammar library
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
Questions about 十二
How is 十二 used in a sentence?
This page shows 6 sentences using 十二 (shí'èr, "Twelve"), 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.
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The dictionary page for 十二 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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