十五 (shíwǔ) means Fifteen. Below are 8 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
正月 十五 要吃元宵。
Zhēngyuè shíwǔ yào chī yuánxiāo.
On the fifteenth of the first lunar month one eats sweet dumplings.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 正月
两班车的间隔是 十五 分钟。
Liǎng bān chē de jiàngé shì shíwǔ fēnzhōng.
The interval between the two buses is fifteen minutes.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 间隔
今天的气温是二 十五 摄氏度。
Jīntiān de qìwēn shì èrshíwǔ shèshìdù.
Today's temperature is twenty-five degrees Celsius.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 摄氏度
他的父亲因癌症去世,那年他才 十五 岁。
Tā de fùqīn yīn áizhèng qùshì, nà nián tā cái shíwǔ suì.
His father died of cancer when he was only fifteen.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 癌症
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From the graded readers
我最后还是出门了,只跑了 十五 分钟。
wǒ zuìhòu háishì chū mén le / liǎo / liào, zhī pǎo le / liǎo / liào shíwǔ fēnzhōng.
In the end I went out anyway, and only ran fifteen minutes.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · Keeping Up Running
如果我不开始,五年以后我还是三 十五 岁。
rúguǒ wǒ bù kāishǐ, wǔ nián yǐhòu wǒ háishì sānshí wǔ suì.
If I didn't start, in five years I'd be thirty-five anyway.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · A Decision at Thirty
如果我现在开始,五年以后我三 十五 岁,也许能画得不错。
rúguǒ wǒ xiànzài kāishǐ, wǔ nián yǐhòu wǒ sānshí wǔ suì, yěxǔ néng huà dé / děi / de búcuò.
If I started now, in five years I'd be thirty-five and could probably paint quite well.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · A Decision at Thirty
From the travel phrasebook
大概三 十五 天到港。
Dàgài sānshíwǔ tiān dào gǎng.
About 35 days to port.
Travel phrasebook · Shipping and customs
Questions about 十五
How is 十五 used in a sentence?
This page shows 8 sentences using 十五 (shíwǔ, "Fifteen"), 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 十五 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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