Chinese symbol for “eighteen”
十八
shí bā
eighteen; 18
The closest CC-CEDICT match for eighteen is 十八 (shí bā), defined as: eighteen; 18.
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Characters and stroke order
Related words
Other words that share a character with 十八.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 十分 | shí fēn | very; completely |
| 十五 | shí wǔ | fifteen; 15 |
| 十九 | shí jiǔ | nineteen; 19 |
| 十二 | shí èr | twelve; 12 |
| 二十 | èr shí | twenty; 20 |
| 八卦 | bā guà | the eight divinatory trigrams of the Book of Changes 易经 (Yì jīng); gossip |
| 胡说八道 (胡說八道) | hú shuō bā dào | to talk rubbish |
| 八成 | bā chéng | eighty percent; most probably |
See also: Japanese symbol for “eighteen”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.