数 (shǔ) — to count; to regard as; to criticize.
Real origin: Tap 攵 + stack 娄 (lóu) for the sound: count the pile!
Example sentences with 数:
- 请你数一数桌子上有几个苹果。 — Qǐng nǐ shǔ yī shǔ zhuōzi shàng yǒu jǐ gè píngguǒ. — Please count how many apples are on the table.
- 我来数一下我们班的人数。 — Wǒ lái shǔ yī xià wǒ men bān de rén shù. — Let me count the number of people in our class.
- 请数一下这里的钱够不够。 — Qǐng shǔ yīxià zhèlǐ de qián gòu bù gòu. — Please count if the money here is enough.
- 我数到十，你就出来。 — Wǒ shǔ dào shí, nǐ jiù chū lái. — I'll count to ten, then you come out.
- 我在数我们要买的东西。 — Wǒ zài shǔ wǒmen yào mǎi de dōngxī. — I am counting the things we need to buy.
- 他开始数他去过的国家。 — Tā kāishǐ shǔ tā qùguò de guójiā. — He started to enumerate the countries he has visited.
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