Chinese symbol for “seventeen”
十七
shí qī
seventeen; 17
The closest CC-CEDICT match for seventeen is 十七 (shí qī), defined as: seventeen; 17.
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Characters and stroke order
Related words
Other words that share a character with 十七.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 十分 | shí fēn | very; completely |
| 十五 | shí wǔ | fifteen; 15 |
| 十八 | shí bā | eighteen; 18 |
| 十九 | shí jiǔ | nineteen; 19 |
| 十二 | shí èr | twelve; 12 |
| 二十 | èr shí | twenty; 20 |
| 七十 | qī shí | seventy; 70 |
| 乱七八糟 (亂七八糟) | luàn qī bā zāo | (idiom) chaotic; in disorder; muddled |
See also: Japanese symbol for “seventeen”.
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.