Definition
一万七千 is a number meaning 'seventeen thousand'. The POS 'm' stands for numeral (数词). In Chinese, numbers above ten thousand are grouped by 万 (wàn, ten thousand), so 一万七千 literally means 'one ten-thousand and seven thousand'. This is a straightforward compound numeral.
m
seventeen thousand
Examples
- 一万七千。Zhège bāo yào yī mò yuán.This bag costs seventeen thousand yuan.
- 一万七千。Wǒmen xuéxiào yǒu yī mò míng xuésheng.Our school has seventeen thousand students.
- 一万七千。Tā měi gè yuè zhuàn yī mò duō kuài.He earns over seventeen thousand kuai each month.
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